'I Know What You Did Last Summer set for a remake
Original I Know What You Did Last Summer star Jennifer Love Hewitt. PHOTO | BANG SHOWBIZ
What you need to know:
- The film starred Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar and her future husband Freddie Prinze Jr. and was a massive box office success earning over $125 million and spawning the sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.
- Sony Pictures has now picked up the rights to remake the movie and the company has hired Oculus writer-and-director Mike Flanagan to pen the script and co-produce the revenge slasher flick with Fast & Furious producer Neal Moritz, according to Deadline.
Cult 90s horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer - which starred Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar - is going to be remade.
The 1997 horror movie focused on a group of teenagers who hit a man with their car and dispose of his body, before being faced by vengeful killer a year later.
The film starred Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar and her future husband Freddie Prinze Jr. and was a massive box office success, earning over $125 million and spawning the sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.
Sony Pictures has now picked up the rights to remake the movie and the company has hired Oculus writer-and-director Mike Flanagan to pen the script and co-produce the revenge slasher flick with Fast & Furious producer Neal Moritz, according to Deadline.
LOOKING FOR A DIRECTOR
Sony are looking for a director to helm the project and want it in cinemas in 2016. No casting information is available yet.
The original movie was based on the 1973 novel of the same name by Lois Duncan and incorporates elements of the urban legend 'The Hook' about an escaped serial killer who has a hook for a hand.
