Writer-director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson introduces the first trailer for the fourth film in the horror franchise.
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Ah, the summer before college.
Nothing but surf, sand… and a good ol' murder to cover up with your besties.
Jonah Hauer-King, Sarah Pidgeon, Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, and Tariq Withers in ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’.Credit:Brook Rushton/Columbia Pictures
Will this new group of teens confess their crimes or take their chances with their mysterious stalker?
But theDo Revengewriter-director says she’s not trying to make a “carbon copy” of other horror blockbusters.
“I really wanted it to kind of stand on its own and have an identity visually.
Sarah Pidgeon, Madelyn Cline, and Chase Sui Wonders in ‘IKWYDLS’.Brook Rushton/Columbia Pictures
And I hope that that feels present in the film and makes people excited to see it.”
As Robinson’s fans know, she loves recruiting her previous stars for cameos in new projects.
The trailer, above, briefly shows Gellar’s Helen in a photo frame.
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“I tried, okay?
But she is dead,” jokes Robinson.
“I tried to pitch some crazy s— too.
And Sarah’s like, ‘I was on ice.
I was the most dead a person could be.
it’s possible for you to see my frozen body.’
Jennifer Love Hewitt in ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’.Matt Kennedy/Columbia Pictures
I was like, ‘Yeah, but what if?’
And she said, ‘I am dead.
I am Sarah Dead Gellar.'”
Freddie Prinze Jr. in ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’.Brook Rushton/Columbia Pictures
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I Know What You Did Last Summergets its hooks in theaters July 18.
