NEED TO KNOW
- Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. reprise their 1997 roles within the new I Know What You Did Final Summer season sequel, in theaters now
- Ryan Phillippe, whose character died within the first movie, doesn’t return for a cameo within the new installment
- Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson tells ipromiseyoumedia why Phillippe, 50, is not again and shares how he might pop up in a possible sequel
Warning: This publish comprises spoilers for the brand new I Know What You Did Final Summer season sequel, in theaters now.
Ryan Phillippe will not be again for the most recent installment of I Know What You Did Final Summer season regardless of his three counterparts from the unique reprising their roles.
Twenty-eight years after the 1997 slasher, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. return as Julie James and Ray Bronson, the 2 survivors of the vengeful fisherman killer.
Although Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Helen Shivers was murdered in that first movie, the star, 48, exhibits up for a fast cameo, reviving her Croaker Queen for a cheeky dream sequence.
Phillippe’s Barry Cox additionally died within the O.G. film, however the actor, 50, doesn’t return for a cameo. His character and his tombstone are, nonetheless, talked about within the movie.
Producer Neal H. Moritz, who has been behind the franchise for the reason that starting, tells ipromiseyoumedia that squeezing in a Phillippe cameo in a film already stuffed with nostalgic easter eggs “would’ve been pushing it.”
Explains director and co-writer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, “It simply acquired to be an excessive amount of. We now have a Barry Cox point out. He will get a shout-out. However, yeah, it began to really feel like too many concepts. However it’s not for an absence of affection of Ryan — he’s superb. And I do assume there’s a very enjoyable method to combine Ryan right into a sequel that I hope occurs.”
On the Only for Selection podcast in Could, Phillippe joked about not with the ability to revisit his iconic roles since he’s typically killed off.
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“I really feel like I made the incorrect transfer dying in all of those tasks as a result of then once they’re resurrected, I don’t get to be part of them,” he stated. “I used to assume it was cool. I’m like, ‘If I might take a personality to their final second.’ Now, I’m like, ‘What are you considering? No, you need to stay in case there’s extra motion pictures to be made.’ ”
He added, “Nevertheless it’s cool to see that these movies, these tasks have endured — that had the affect culturally that they did — that they might need to revisit them. It undoubtedly makes you’re feeling like a dinosaur or conscious of your age. However on the identical time it’s a praise to one thing that you simply have been part of that succeeded.”
Producer Moritz says it was a “full-circle second” making the brand new movie a long time after the unique, which he counts because the “first actual hit” of his profession.
“The film holds such an vital place for all of us that have been concerned in that first film, and we did not need to do [this new film] except we have been doing one thing that we felt could possibly be pretty much as good as the primary one. That was actually the purpose. There wanted to be a motive for it to exist, and I feel we got here up with that motive. The previous and the current coming collectively was an awesome type of hook concept.”
I Know What You Did Final Summer season is in theaters now.
