Iconic ’90s stars have known as — and we’re hooked.
Twenty-eight years after the 1997 slasher “I Know What You Did Last Summer” hit theaters, the forged of the sequel stepped out for its premiere at LA’s United Theater on Broadway on Monday.
Together with new faces, together with Madelyn Cline, Lola Tung, Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Chase Sui Wonders, the crowds acquired a blast from the previous.
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. — who starred within the authentic venture collectively — turned the premiere into date night time.
Prinze Jr., 49, reprises his function as Ray Bronson within the sequel. Gellar, 48, performed Helen Shivers, who died within the OG film.
The unique Kevin Williamson-written movie adopted a gaggle of 4 mates who unintentionally kill a person. One yr later, they’re stalked by a hook-wielding killer. Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ryan Phillippe rounded out the forged.
Phillippe’s character, Barry William Cox, was additionally murdered.
The sequel, “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer,” was launched in 1998.
In accordance with Sony Footage, the 2025 film follows 5 mates who “inadvertently cause a deadly car accident” earlier than they “cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences.”
Nevertheless, “a year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they’re forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer…and is hell-bent on revenge. As one by one the friends are stalked by a killer, they discover this has happened before, and they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport Massacre of 1997 for help.”
Regardless of not being within the venture, Gellar nonetheless got here out to assist her husband of 23 years. She donned a strapless, Oscar de la Renta butterfly mini costume and matched the carpet with a blue and orange colour scheme.
The “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star accessorized with an orange leather-based clutch, orange pumps, and saved her lengthy, blonde hair down.
Prinze coordinated along with his different half, sporting a navy blue linen swimsuit and loafers.
In October 1997, the pair walked the carpet for the unique horror film individually on the GCC Galaxy Theatre in Hollywood, Calif.
Gellar and Prinze first met on the set of “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” however didn’t begin courting till 2000.
“History repeating itself! Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. at the I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER premiere in 1997 and again in 2025,” Gellar’s buddy, Evan Ross Katz, wrote on Instagram beneath a side-by-side shot from each carpets.
Jennifer Love Hewitt, who stars as Julie James within the slasher franchise, additionally surprised on the crimson carpet. The actress, 46, wore a Rachel Gilbert black costume embellished with jewels and matching closed-toe heels. In contrast to her brunette character, Hewitt rocked ginger-red hair for the large night time.
She joins Prinze Jr. onscreen for the brand new movie.
Gellar had one other nostalgic run-in on Monday night time. The “Ringer” actress posed along with her “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” co-star, Seth Inexperienced. Their reunion comes 5 months after Michelle Trachtenberg, who performed Buffy’s little sister Daybreak Summers, died at age 39.
Gellar is presently in manufacturing for the reboot of the hit mystical drama sequence.
In Might, the “Cruel Intentions” alum introduced that Ryan Kiera Armstrong will play the brand new slayer. The present is about to be the subsequent chapter within the Buffyverse.
Gellar, in the meantime, spoke out in October about not returning to the “I Know What You Did Last Summer” franchise.
She merely instructed Folks on the time, “I am dead.”
“My best friend [Jennifer Kaytin Robinson] is directing it, so we joke that I have an unofficial job, which is I am continuity,” Gellar defined. “So I’m always the one telling her, ‘Well, that would happen, or that wouldn’t happen with those characters,’ so I do have kind of an unofficial job title.”
Earlier this month, Prinze Jr. weighed in on reuniting with Hewitt on the venture.
“Whatever a high school union feels like, that’s what it felt like,” he expressed to Folks. “You have no idea what’s changed, what’s the same. You’re excited to show what you think you’re better at. You hope they notice it. It was all those things.”
Because of the tight filming schedule, “there just had to be trust that each of us cared enough to put the work in,” Prinze Jr. continued. “I didn’t have any reason not to trust her. I know how much this character means to her. She puts everything into this girl and always has since the first movie.”
Hewitt, for her half, had some reservations about re-joining the forged.
“I’ll be super honest, I had total anxiety for 48 hours before [filming] because I was like, ‘Can I do this? Am I going to pull this off?’ It’s a lot of pressure,” she instructed Folks in April.
Regardless of her worry, the “Holiday Junkie” vet was grateful to be requested again.
“As a female in Hollywood, in your 40s, sometimes you can feel forgotten about,” Hewitt confessed, noting that she felt “really touched emotionally and honored that Sony would have me back, that the franchise would have me back, that Jen wanted me back, and that the audience wanted me back. It really felt like an honor. Stepping into her shoes again was really fun.”
She added that the present forged is “phenomenal.”
“It’s for them to make it their own,” Hewitt gushed. “And for me to stand by like a proud mom and say, ‘It’s yours now, take it and run and enjoy.’”
“I Know What You Did Last Summer” hits theaters on Friday.
