Hide your pageant queens and be wary of fishing hooks, because
I Know What You Did Last Summer is coming back. The late '90s thriller (which is streaming now on
CTV Movies) is about to be introduced to a new generation who likely only know of the title as a hit
Shawn Mendes and Camilla Cabello duet. New theme song? Seems like a good fit.Just announced,
I Know What You Did Last Summer is set to be turned into a TV series. No actors are attached to the project just yet, but writer Sara Goodman, whose work includes
Gossip Girl and
Preacher, will help write the horror series.“The best horror franchises always have another scare coming, and this ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ series from Sara Goodman is a perfectly twisted update to the iconic slasher movie,” said Amazon Studios COO Albert Cheng in a
statement about the new project. “Any way you slice it, our global Prime Video customers will love this modern take on the fan favorite film.”Based on the 1973 novel by Lois Duncan, the 1997 film was written by Kevin Williamson, who created several iconic teen films and TV shows, including
Scream, The Faculty and
Dawson’s Creek. Starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, and Freddie Prinze Jr., the film followed four teens who accidentally hit and kill a man with their car and dump his body in a lake. The event signals the end of the foursome’s relationship, but they come together the following summer after they begin receiving threatening letters from someone who, you guessed it, knows what they did last summer.The film was a commercial success and earned $125 million at the box office. Hewitt and Prinze Jr. reprised their roles the following year for the sequel
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, which included the additions of Brandy, Mekhi Phifer, and Matthew Settle. A third film,
I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, was released in 2005, although none of the main cast members returned for that installment.
I Know What You Did Last Summer is the latest film from the '90s to receive the green light for a TV adaptation. A TV series based on the 1991 film
Fried Green Tomatoes has been
announced and will star Reba McEntire as Idgie Threadgoode, a role originally played by Mary Stuart Masterson and Nancy Moore Atchison. Norman Lear, who executive produced the film, will return as a producer for the series. Based on Fannie Flagg’s 1987 novel, the film starred Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary-Louise Parker and Cicely Tyson and received two Oscar nominations. The new hour-long drama will focus on the descendants of the film’s original characters, with McEntire playing a present-day Threadgoode. McEntire and Flagg will join Lear as producers.The 1992 film
A League of Their Own is also coming to the small screen. Originally directed by Penny Marshall and starring Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Rosie O’Donnell and Madonna, the beloved film about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League is being turned into a TV show by
Broad City writer and star Abbi Jacobson. In addition to Jacobson, the series will star Chanté Adams, D'Arcy Carden, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Kelly McCormack, Roberta Colindrez and Priscilla Delgado. According to
Variety, Jacobson received Marshall’s blessing for the new series before the director’s passing in 2018. Surviving members of the AAGPBL are serving as consultants on the upcoming Amazon series.
