Hewitt previously starred as Julie James in two previous films for the franchise
Jennifer Love Hewitt is set to return for a third film in the I Know What You Did Last Summer series, she announced on social media Friday.
“It's never too late to go back. Julie James is returning. I know what you will be doing next summer,” Hewitt wrote in an Instagram post accompanied by a promo photo of her for the movie.
Hewitt had teased getting involved in the horror franchise's upcoming reboot earlier this week on The Jennifer Hudson Show, telling Hudson that “I can't say much, I'm not officially in it yet, but I'm close.”
“They have an amazing young cast that's in it,” Hewitt said. “I'm hoping to come back as the ghost of Nineties past, and we'll see what happens.”
Based on a 1973 book, I Know What You Did Last Summer turned Hewitt into a movie star after she featured as the film's main protagonist Julie James in 1997 alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, and Freddie Prinze Jr. The classic slasher flick focused on four friends running from a vengeful hook-handed fisherman who they left for dead in a hit and run a year prior. She and Prinze Jr. reprized their roles in the 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. Outside of the movies, Amazon also released a TV series based on the book in 2021.
Prinze Jr. was confirmed to be returning in September, according to a report from Variety. The still-untitled movie is set to release on July 18, 2025.
