The movie — which is directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson — options newcomers Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Sarah Pidgeon, Tariq Weathers, Jonah Hauer-King, and extra in its ensemble forged. Whereas Lola Tung and Nicholas Alexander Chavez have been additionally forged, the director has confirmed that the 2 have been in the end minimize from the movie.

In an interview with Individuals, Robinson stated Tung and Chavez’s scene was set to be the opener of the slasher movie. Nonetheless, she admitted that she in the end realized it did not “match” with the remainder of the movie.

“In each film, it is best laid plans, and you then edit the film and you set it collectively and also you go, ‘I like this in a vacuum. This can be a improbable scene. But it surely does not match within the film,” Robinson stated.

The filmmaker went on to reward Tung and Chavez, noting that she’d wish to work with them sooner or later.

“It was simply a type of conditions the place it had nothing to do with Lola and Nicholas — they’re each so improbable,” Robinson stated. “I actually would like to work with them once more. I liked working with them. They did a superb job. However within the bigger tapestry of the movie, it simply did not match.”

“It sucks since you do not need to try this to these actors,” she added. “And it sucks if you love one thing as a scene however that scene simply does not work within the remaining minimize of the movie.”

Whereas talking with Selection on the movie’s LA premiere, Robinson shared how Tung and Chavez reacted to sadly being minimize from the film.

“Everyone was so skilled about it. They’re so candy, so pretty. They completely received it,” she stated, earlier than teasing, “Possibly they’re going to make the sequel.”

I Know What You Did Final Summer season — which is a sequel to 1997’s movie of the identical title, in addition to 1998’s I Nonetheless Know What You Did Final Summer season — options 5 younger associates performed by Cline, Wonders, Pidgeon, Weathers, and Hauer-King dealing with a well-recognized evil after one thing occurred to them the earlier summer season.

Unique stars Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt reprise their roles from the 1997 movie and the 1998 sequel.

There’s one well-known face, although, who will not be making a return, however not with out a variety of effort and persuading and outside-the-box pondering to try to make it occur. And all of it comes again to what occurred in that very first movie.

Robinson — who additionally co-wrote the screenplay — admitted she “tried relentlessly” to persuade Sarah Michelle Gellar to come back again, however she could not make it make sense for the Buffy alum, regardless of some determined creativity.

“I attempted, okay? I harassed her! However she is useless,” Robinson advised Leisure Weekly in April. “I attempted to pitch some loopy s–t too. I used to be like, ‘What if it’s such as you weren’t useless and also you’re truly alive, however in hiding?’”

“And Sarah’s like, ‘I used to be on ice. I used to be probably the most useless an individual could possibly be. You possibly can see my frozen physique,’” Robinson continued. “I used to be like, ‘Yeah, however what if?’ And he or she stated, ‘I’m useless. I’m Sarah Useless Gellar.’”

I Know What You Did Final Summer season hits theaters July 18, 2025.