Billy Campbell se suma al reboot de ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’

The slasher reboot/sequel I Know What You Did Last Summerlaunched by Sony Pictures in February 2023, has just announced the signing of Billy Campbell (serie Mr. & Mrs. Smith), Deadline confirmed.

The actor joins a cast that currently includes Madelyn Cline (Outer Banks), Sarah Pidgeon (The Wilds), Tyriq Withers (Atlanta), Jonah Hauer-King (The Tattooist of Auschwitz), Chase Sui Wonders (Bodies Bodies Bodies), and the return of Freddie Prinze Jr. with the other original star, Jennifer Love Hewitt, holding negotiations to reprise her role as Julie, played in the original 1997 installment and the 1998 sequel.

It was previously announced that Camila Mendes (Riverdale, Do Revenge) left the ranks of the cast due to conflicts with his work schedule.

The project would be a “legacy sequel”, in the style of the trilogy Halloween from Blumhouse, and the relaunch of the franchise Scream.

The reboot will be led by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge, Someone Great)and a new script co-written by Robinson and Sam Lansky. Previously there was a script written by Leah McKendrick.

Neal H. Moritzone of the producers of the original, is back to produce this new installment.

In addition to starring in the award-winning Amazon series, Mr. & Mrs. SmithCampbell has been part of the series Cardinal, The Killing, Lizzie Borden Took an Axand movies like Ghost Town, Bram Stoker’s Draculay Enough.

The original film directed by Jim Gillespie, is loosely inspired by the thriller novel of the same name by Lois Duncan. The film written by by Kevin Williamson, It arrived in theaters shortly after the hit Scream (1996). After the box office success of the latter, Sony's Columbia Pictures bought the rights to the screenplay by Williamson (screenwriter of Scream and its sequels), taking advantage of the huge resurgence of the slasher genre in the mid-90s.

And this time the strategy is repeated, since Robinson and McKendrick are said to have been inspired by the saga's revival Screamwhich released the fifth installment in 2022, was released the following year Scream VIand currently have in development Scream VII.

The plot of IKWYDLS focuses on a group of four friends, Julie (Hewitt), Ray (Prinze Jr.), Barry (Ryan Phillippe) and Helen (Sarah Michelle Gellar), who, on American Independence Day and after celebrating their high school graduation, accidentally run over and kill a man fleeing the crime scene, after throwing the body to a lake. Nothing happens until a year later, when one of the group members, Julie, receives an anonymous message: “I know what they did last summer.” After the mysterious letter, a man dressed as a fisherman, with a dark raincoat and a hook instead of a hand, begins to attack them one by one, threatening to discover their secret. It had a global box office of $125.5 million with a budget of $17 million.

The studio later released the sequels I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) with the return of Hewitt and Prinze, and I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006), with new cast. More recently, Prime Video made a series based on the original film, which was canceled after one season aired.

Sony Pictures will release the film under traditional theatrical release July 18, 2025.