Summary
The director of the nextI Know What You Did Last Summersequel confirms that the upcoming movie is not erasing any of the established canon.I Know What You Did Last Summerwasoriginally a 1997 slasher horror filmabout a group of young adults who, after covering up an accidental murder, are hunted down by a killer. The horror movie was followed up byI Still Know What You Did Last Summerin 1998, andI’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summerin 2006.
Taking to social media, the nextI Know What You Did Last Summermovie’s director,Jenn Kaytin Robinson, confirms howI Know What You Did Last Summeris connected to the franchise. Robinson was responding to the claim that the 2025 version ofI Know What You Did Last Summeris “ignoring previous sequels.“Robinson denied this assertion, saying “it is definitely not.”
She then went on to say thatI Still Know What You Did Last Summeris canon. She added a “hope this helps” after clarifying this information about the sequel.
The I Know What You Did Last Summer Sequel Confusion Explained
I Know What You Did Last Summer Will Break A Horror Trend
Robinson is responding to the previous misunderstanding that the 2025 version ofI Know What You Did Last Summerwould be “ignoring the subsequent sequels"that came after the original. The 2025 sequel, which was announced in early 2023, was thought instead to be a direct follow-up to the first movie. If it had been so, theI Know What We Did Last Summersequelwould have reset the timeline for the franchise.
Part of this confusion likely stemmed from the fact thatother horror franchises have been engaging in reboots, indirect sequels, or “requels” lately.This includes the 2018 version ofHalloween, which followed up the original John Carpenter film, as well as last year’sThe Exorcist: Believer. With this strategy, the films ignore the previous timeline and create their own. Because of this trend, some previouslyworried thatI Know What You Did Last Summerwould retconthe other movies.
I Know What You Did Last Summer 4 Risks Repeating Scream 7’s Final Girl Return Problem
I Know What You Did Last Summer 4 might bring Julie James back, but with this, it would risk repeating Scream 7’s Final Girl problem.
Robinson’s latest update vastly changes whatI Know What You Did Last Summerwill look like. Concerns about retconning the other parts of the franchise are moot now, as the sequel is confirmed to exist in the canon of the series. For horror fans tired of legacy sequels and requels that ignore franchise content,I Know What You Did Last Summerwill be a breath of fresh air as it disrupts horror trends.
