Jennifer Love Hewitt needs to Know What You Did Last Summer in new trailer

The I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot also sees the returns of Freddie Prinze Jr. and the Fisherman.

By Emma Keates  |  April 22, 2025 | 10:28am
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Kids have to stop covering up crimes in Southport, but kids, famously, never learn. Now, a whole new group of them are being stalked by the infamous Fisherman, who definitely knows what they did last summer despite the group’s best efforts to throw whatever it was under the rug. Meditation won’t make it go away either, as the franchise reboot’s trailer shows in its opening shot. While Madelyn Cline’s character tries to find her bliss upstairs, her boyfriend (Joshua Orpin) gets literally harpooned a few feet away. “The energy you give to the universe always comes back to you,” Cline’s meditation tape drones while her boyfriend confronts the terrifying, hook-carrying killer. Maybe manifestation wasn’t the best idea in this particular scenario.

Eventually, the film’s core group—which also includes Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, and Sarah Pidgeon—realizes they need to seek help for their very specific situation from the people who know it best: survivors of the original Southport Massacre, Julie and Ray (Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr., reprising their roles from the original 1997 slasher). Prinze shows up in the trailer to remind a town hall meeting that this isn’t the first time there’s been bloody violence like this in the small town (again, he would know), while Hewitt asks the next generation “one question… What did you do last summer?”

Whatever it was, it also involves characters played by Billy Campbell, Austin Nichols, Lola Tung, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, and musician/model Gabbriette Bechtel. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge) is directing from a script she co-wrote with Sam Lansky. This year’s reboot follows 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, 2006’s direct-to-video I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, and a 2021 Prime Video series. Hope you didn’t bury any bodies last summer, because the Fisherman comes to town July 18.

 
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