The next entries in the Resident Evil franchise to get the remake treatment will reportedly be 2000’s CODE: Veronica and 2002’s Zero. This would follow Capcom’s trend of delivering remakes of its old titles, the most recent being the 2023 Resident Evil 4 remake. The rumor comes from Dusk Golem, a prominent survival…
The next entries in the Resident Evil franchise to get the remake treatment will reportedly be 2000’s CODE: Veronica and 2002’s Zero. This would follow Capcom’s trend of delivering remakes of its old titles, the most recent being the 2023 Resident Evil 4 remake. The rumor comes from Dusk Golem, a prominent survival…
It was Memorial Day weekend and one thing actress Lisa Jakub wants us to remember is not only her amazingly iconic on-screen father, Robin Williams, but Williams’ support of military veterans as he would make sure to hire some on his film sets. Jakub played the oldest daughter of the Hillard clan in Mrs. Doubtfire, Lydia. The actors who played the kids in the popular Chris Columbus movie would recently reunite in an episode of the Brotherly Love podcast that’s hosted by her on-screen brother, Matthew Lawrence. Jakub posted on Threads, “We had a little reunion…30 years later and my Mrs. Doubtfire family still feels like family. The sisters had so much fun hanging out with the brothers. @marawilson and @matthewlawrence still feel like my siblings- even 30 years after filming Mrs Doubtfire.”
Deadline reports that Jakub would celebrate Memorial Day with an anecdote about Williams on Mrs. Doubtfire. She told Fox News Digital, “So many people have told me that Robin did a lot of work with the veteran population as well, and that he always had production crews hire local veterans to be background actors or things like that on set, which is not something I ever knew about when I worked with him… but I also love that little connection as well.” Jakub, herself, runs a veterans nonprofit organization called Mission Flexible. She would also show her gratitude that she was able to spend time with the comedian, “Robin was everything you would hope Robin would be, and it’s so wonderful to think back on him now… (I am) grateful that I got to be in his presence, that I got to be working with him, that he was so kind to me.”
She added, “(He was) probably one of the first people who ever really spoke to me super honestly about mental health. And he would talk to me about his struggles and the things that he went through. And it was the first time that I felt like, ‘Oh, I’m not a freak. I don’t have to hide this about myself. This is just something that some of us have to deal with’.”
In the Brotherly Love podcast, Jakub would also pay tribute to Williams, saying, “You had to be really present. We’re on set and I’m like, ‘I am so lost but, you know, we’re just going to go with it because he’s Robin and you can trust him.” Lawrence – who played Christopher Hillard – agreed, adding, “That is very true. He was one of the best at going off the book and creating his own stuff. To be in front of the camera with him was quite the experience. If you weren’t present and you weren’t ready for any kind of curveball you were going to get thrown off.”
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The PlayStation Plus Classics Catalog is an underutilized service on Sony’s part, especially when it comes to PlayStation 2 games. Since the company didn’t go the way of Xbox by allowing users to natively play old games on new hardware, PS4 and PS5 owners wanting to play their classic games on modern hardware have had…
The PlayStation Plus Classics Catalog is an underutilized service on Sony’s part, especially when it comes to PlayStation 2 games. Since the company didn’t go the way of Xbox by allowing users to natively play old games on new hardware, PS4 and PS5 owners wanting to play their classic games on modern hardware have had…
Sixteen years have passed since Spawn creator Todd McFarlane announced he was going to make sure a new Spawn movie was going to be made, even if he had to produce, direct, and finance it himself. Blumhouse Productions has been helping McFarlane develop the project since 2017, and even though he had written a script himself, they’ve also hired multiple screenwriters to do further work on the script. We heard a couple of years ago that Scott Silver (Joker), Malcolm Spellman (Captain America: New World Order), and Matthew Mixom (Yesterday Was Everything) were all typing away on the script – and during a new interview with ComicBook.com, McFarlane focused on the contributions being made by Silver, saying the writer is aiming to give the new film meaning and purpose.
McFarlane told ComicBook.com, “There’s a script but the writers are, they’re not quite sort of satisfied with their own work, which is what all of us creative people are. We put it on paper and then we criticize ourselves. So they’re going through sort of an extensive sort of rework and rewrite of it. I was just on the phone a couple of days ago with Scott Silver, the guy who’s sort of manning the lead of it right now. He’s also the writer of Joker and Joker 2. We’re all planning and hoping and moving towards having this done so that we can take it out so that we can find our studio finally pre-Joker 2 launch, which comes in October. I wish everybody could hear the conversation because he is so impassioned about what he’s talking about. He is so engrossed in what he’s doing… It’s not like he’s just like, I’m just trying to get it done. It’s just not a good guy versus bad guy story… He said the other day, ‘I’d rather take a swing and it be too big of a swing then to not take a hard enough swing at it.’ He’s kind of fearless and he doesn’t want to replicate what he knows is sort of the safe, probably predictable path that most people would go because it’s the proven path, right? Just wants to bend it. He wants it because we’re gonna do R rated and we’re gonna do it and it can’t be mini-Marvel and mini-DC. It can’t.“
Whatever the meaning and purpose of the Spawn reboot may be, it goes beyond “just that the good guy won.“
Jamie Foxx has been attached to play Spawn in the new film since 2018. For a while, Jeremy Renner was attached to play homicide detective Maximilian “Twitch” Williams III, and we heard the movie might focus on Twitch after he loses his daughter to gang violence. He then begins his quest for revenge by enlisting the help of his ex-partner Danny to aid in his investigation of the criminal factions in New York. Twitch quickly realizes he’s in over his head as he learns that two of the largest organizations are teaming up to take over the criminal underworld of the city. That’s where Spawn comes in. Twitch is visited by Al, a mysterious man who has knowledge of his daughter’s death. It quickly becomes clear that Al is not who he appears to be as he reveals himself to be Spawn, a messenger from Hell who can aid Twitch in his search for justice. But that was several years ago, so the story could be completely different by this point.
Spawn previously received a feature film adaptation in 1997, but that movie didn’t go over very well. There was a well regarded animated series that ran for three seasons – and McFarlane has previously said he’s hoping to get some new animated Spawn projects off the ground. McFarlane has also said that he considers 2024 to be the make or break year for the reboot, and he has high hopes that the release of the Silver-scripted Joker: Folie à Deux will get studios eager to make Spawn.
Are you looking forward to finding out what Scott Silver, Malcolm Spellman, and Matthew Mixom have brought to the Spawn reboot script? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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Take a seat my horror hounds, the Leprechaun is making rounds. From grassy knolls and Irish springs- to the streets on a hunt for bling. Okay, I admit that was pretty bad- but in my defense, I haven’t been able to stop talking in rhyme since I watched the year 2000’s Leprechaun in the Hood (watch it HERE) which not only is a completely outside of the box film for the franchise, it also, somehow, fits right in with it. The fifth movie in the Leprechaun series, In the Hood takes the wise-cracking and menacing Leprechaun as he once again schemes and murders his way to retrieving his beloved pot of gold. Or in this case- his golden flute.
Fans of this franchise all have our own ranking when it comes to which Leprechaun films are too cheesy, which are not cheesy enough, and which ones are just right. But one thing seems to be consistent across the scope of this particular fandom- this movie is fun to watch with people…. When you’re stoned. And while you may find this movie to be too much, or too little, I think the fact that it exists, and that there is an audience for it makes it worthy of being broken down on our show. Also, Tyler and Lance thought it would be funny.
For those uninitiated in this franchise- Leprechaun began with the 1993 film which followed Lubdan the leprechaun on a hunt for his pot of gold which he believes has been stolen by Jennifer Aniston… The original film was originally written as a straight up blood and guts horror film, which was later re-worked to include more comedy and surrealism in the kills- which quickly became the standard for the subsequent catalogue of movies. But, we’re not here to break down Lubdan’s adventures in North Dakota (although, let me know if you’d watch that) we’re here to follow his first trip to South Central, and see what kind of trouble we can get into when his magical flute is stolen by the “cop killa” himself- Ice T. So, roll one up, pour one up, or whatever it is that you do and let’s get into it. I’m Kier with JoBlo Horror Originals, and you’re watching Deconstructing.
Leprechaun in the Hood stars the iconic Warwick Davis as the titular leprechaun. This is right up there with some of Davis’s most memorable characters and despite how you feel about this movie- his performance is always exactly where it needs to be for the material he’s given. The story goes like this- Ice-T plays Mack Daddy O’Nasses, a hip hop artist with dreams of making it big. When he discovers an underground room full of valuable treasure- he loots the joint and re-awakens the leprechaun. After a hilarious scuffle (complete with Mack pulling a baseball bat out of his afro) he’s able to mollify the leprechaun, turning him to stone and keeping him as a trophy. Hilarious opening scene honestly. Cut to 20 years later with Mack having not aged a day…? Okay. He’s now a successful record executive and producer of his own label. Along come our three main characters- Post, Stray, and Butch- aspiring local rappers who want to make it big time by spreading positivity and unity to their community.
These guys get rejected and decide to rob Mack’s office for revenge. This results in them nearly killing Mack, and accidentally re-awaking the leprechaun once again. From here it’s pretty much the typical setup- Lubdan will not rest until he tracks down his flute and gets revenge on those who took it from him. In some of the cheesiest BUT most fun ways possible. Now technically this isn’t much different from the plot of any other leprechaun film, so why is this installment among the most memorable? In order to find out, we’re going to break down this movie into our four key categories. First, we’re going to cover the origins of this movie and how it got made. Seeing as there were four other Leprechaun movies before this one, I’m mostly just going to give the highlights and stick to THIS film. After that we’ll get into the movie’s legacy. Trust me, it’s more interesting than you think for a sequel. After that we’ll have some fun with a game of JoBlo Horror Movie Trivia and then we’ll go for the gold and talk about the movie’s X-Factor where i find the one small thing that makes this movie such a cult hit after nearly 25 years. So if you’re ready than keep your backs to the wall and don’t forget to like the video. And let’s hit play on Leprechaun in the Hood.
ORIGIN
Let’s go back to the early 90s for a minute. A writer named Mark Jones was working as a writer on a show called Superboy – that was the short-lived Superman nepotism show starring Alexander Salkind. Jones aspired to be a filmmaker and wanted to write and direct a feature. Jones had been developing an idea since the 80s after being inspired by a box of lucky charms- about an evil murderous leprechaun who would do anything to get his pot of gold. Take a shot every time I say the word “gold”. Just kidding. Don’t. You’ll die.
After writing his horror/thriller leprechaun script, Jones was able to get it picked up by Trimark and secure a budget of about $1 million. In fact, this became Trimark’s first film to be released theatrically. Jones would be satisfied with the film he made but didn’t return to work on any of the sequels. He made his movie and went back to making TV. Only to write Rumpelstiltskin a few years later. But in his wake, a franchise was born and like it or not it’s still going today.
As for Leprechaun in the Hood– This movie was released as part of a rapid-release schedule with a new Leprechaun adventure hitting the direct-to-video shelf every year or two. The sequels were low-budget, and occasionally low-effort, but the character and his iconic status carried this franchise into cult status- so the movies keep getting made. Leprechaun in the Hood was given a budget of $1.4 million and made use of mostly no-name actors. The film’s quality is definitely lacking in star-power, but the money was well-spent on practical effects that (shocker) hold up better than the movie’s very dated digital effects. Remember, this was 2,000- not 1990. However I will say that director Rob Spera and writers Doug Hall and Jon Huffman found a way to capture Warwick’s best acting sensibilities and play to his strengths. How did they do it? They just let him be the Leprechaun. And that was enough. In fact, if anything is proof that this movie has something- it’s that it got a direct follow up called Leprechaun Back 2 Tha Hood in 2003. Okay, actually… Maybe this is the movie that doomed the franchise. Which reminds me, let’s look at this movie’s legacy.
LEGACY
After the release of Leprechaun in the Hood, Tristar decided that they couldn’t afford to keep pumping money into a property whose glory days are behind it. They sold the rights to Lionsgate, who immediately began working on the next installment- only to sort of bastardize the history of the original movies and lead to the next films being an attempt to reboot the franchise. There was Leprechaun Origins in 2014 which dabbled in Lubdan’s roots, and a Syfy movie called Leprechaun Returns in 2018. Neither film starred Warwick Davis as Lubdan but both have their cult fans… I guess.
There have been rumblings throughout Hollywood that there’s a Leprechaun reboot coming our way soon and even some directors and writers attached to the project, If you believe everything you read online that is. Just kidding, it’ll probably happen. We live in a world where nobody can resist the sweet, sweet comfort of nostalgic films. But as it stands, this movie right here is one of the most iconic. And why? Because it’s absurd. Between the ghetto puns, the awful rhymes from Post and his friends, the insane continuity errors, and this weird scene of the Chinese restaurant owner trying to audition as a backup dancer… This is just one hell of a memorable movie. I mean, at one point Post and Butch dress in drag and pretend to be hookers in order to confront Lubdan at a club. I can’t stress this enough this movie just swims in the bizarre.
The kills in this movie are actually kind of good. There’s a few that are done off-screen in order to preserve the movie’s budget. But the stuff that they do show is hilariously bombastic. We get like 3 chest-hole kills in this movie and they’re all done differently. It’s lunacy, folks. We often think of this movie as Leprechaun meets How High meets Scarface but with half of the charm of each- but in its attempt to do something different, the movie succeeds in bringing new kinds of characters into the path of this maniacal monster. We recall seeing Lubdan smoke weed with Ice-T and say “A friend with weed is a friend indeed” which is a staple meme for horror lovers of the early 2000s, and we have some truly off-the-wall protagonists with Butch being maybe the my favorite “dumb friend with a good heart who sacrifices himself for the less-interesting lead” trope. The faces he makes, the way he pulls off the plan at the end, the loyalty he has- He’s extremely memorable. R.I.P Butch.
Of course, we can’t forget Jacky D the pawn shop owner who gets taken out by the leprechaun by way of hallucination and… horniness?
TRIVIA
Something I wanted to mention during the Origin, but I found it too perfect for trivia- did you know that Warwick Davis had such bad stomach gas, that there were occasional shooting delays on-set because he just couldn’t stop farting. Lance, Tyler- I hope you guys are getting a kick out of this.
And before we move on, let’s see if you can answer this question:
If Leprechaun 3 and Leprechaun in Space director Brian Trenchard-Smith would’ve returned to direct- Where would the Leprechaun’s adventure have been set in?
Comment your answers below!
X-FACTOR
Now friends, if you paid attention to this video- you know exactly what the X-Factor is. In fact, I may have already stated it or mentioned it. The purpose of this segment is to find the thing that makes the movie we’re watching stand out as a classic, a cult classic, or just a memorable piece of horror history. And for me, that’s obviously Warwick Davis. But also… this movie is fun to watch when you’re stoned.
This movie is a stoner comedy. It’s as much Scary Movie as it is anything else to the point it almost feels like parody- but not in a bad way. It’s a movie that works because it taps into something that niche audiences like us to do- hang out with a group of friends and experience the weirdness together and laugh at the moments that are supposed to make us laugh. In that way, the movie does everything it promised to do. I think it can all be summed up by a text my friend sent me after seeing the movie- it reads: “I mean, it can’t be an accident. They knew that Ice-T pulling a baseball bat out of his hair was funny, and I laughed. So, I guess they achieved what they were looking to do. PS- Edibles… seriously.”
And I just think that makes the point of this movie in a short and honest way. It’s wacky, it’s funny, it’s absurd, silly, corny, tacky, and kind of wonderful. I don’t know what exactly is next for the Leprechaun franchise- but one thing that I do know is that this movie is something I would consider rewatchable in the same specific way that the original film is. It hits the target for what it is. It is NOT cinema, but it’ll remind you why you love bad movies.
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David Lynch hasn’t directed a feature film since Inland Empire in 2006, but he has directed many shorts since then, as well as all 18 episodes of Twin Peaks: The Return. Last month, we heard that he’s hoping to make an animated film called Snootworld, which was rejected by the Netflix streaming service… but while we wait to find out whether or not Snootworld is going to find a home, Lynch has taken to social media to tease that something is coming from him in June. On June 5th, to be exact.
In a video posted to X, Lynch said, “Ladies and gentlemen, something is coming along for you to see and hear. And it will be coming along on June 5.“
Lynch didn’t provide any hints as to what this something may be. A short film? A music video? We’ll know by the end of next week, that’s for sure.
Lynch is who we have to thank for Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, the 1984 version of Dune, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, The Straight Story, and Mulholland Drive, among other things. He has been working with The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, The Addams Family, and Welcome to Marwen writer Caroline Thompson on the screenplay for Snootworld, on and off, for a couple of decades.
Thompson told Deadline that the story of Snootworld is “wackadoo.” She said, “It takes my breath away how wacky it is. The Snoots are these tiny creatures who have a ritual transition at aged eight at which time they get tinier and they’re sent away for a year so they are protected. The world goes into chaos when the Snoot hero of the story disappears into the carpet and his family can’t find him and he enters a crazy, magnificent world.“ Thompson wrote the first and third acts of the screenplay, while Lynch wrote the second act. Lynch is on board to produce the film if and when it gets rolling, but isn’t sure if he’ll direct it.
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PLOT: Vincent, one of New York’s leading puppeteers and creator of the hugely popular children’s television show, ‘Good Day Sunshine,’ struggles to cope with the loss of his son, Edgar, becoming increasingly distressed and volatile. Full of self-loathing and guilt around Edgar’s disappearance, he clings to his son’s drawings of a blue monster puppet, ERIC, convinced that if he can get ERIC on TV then Edgar will come home. As Vincent’s progressively destructive behaviour alienates his family, his work colleagues, and the detectives trying to help him, it’s Eric, a delusion of necessity, who becomes his only ally in the pursuit to bring his son home.
REVIEW: The idea behind Eric, as depicted in the trailer for the series, is a fascinating concept. A man driven to the edge of sanity after the disappearance of his son bonds with an imaginary monster created by his child to rescue him. This in and of itself would have been a great idea for a woefully underdeveloped story in the final six-part series. With a challenging character played by Benedict Cumberbatch, Eric combines two very different narratives that each could have worked had they been the story’s primary focus. Instead, Eric fails to deliver either while wasting a cast full of solid performances, including excellent turns by Gaby Hoffman, Dan Fogler, and McKinley Belcher III. Wallowing in the dark and depressing reality of broken families, childhood trauma, repressed sexuality, and urban homelessness, Eric is a fantastic and fantastical idea that never comes together in a way that lives up to its potential.
Eric opens with Vincent Anderson (Benedict Cumberbatch) working as the creator and lead puppeteer on the Sesame Street-esque kid’s show Good Day Sunshine in New York City. Vincent is abrasive, rude, and demanding of his preteen son Edgar (Ivan Morris Howe), which triggers fights between Vincent and his wife Cassie (Gaby Hoffman). Edgar retreats into his imagination and comes up with a new puppet monster named Eric that he wants his dad to add to the television show. When Edgar disappears on the way to school, the investigation into his disappearance becomes city-wide news, especially since Vincent is the son of major real estate developer Arthur Anderson (John Doman). As Vincent and Cassie’s marriage falls apart, Vincent retreads into drugs, alcohol, and mental illness, which projects Eric as a physical presence who talks to him. Vincent becomes convinced that Edgar will come home if he builds a real Eric for the show, which strains his personal and professional relationships.
If that narrative was the driving force of Eric, the series would have been fascinating. Instead, Eric splits between Vincent’s downward spiral and the police investigation into Edgar’s disappearance. Detective Michael Ledroit (McKinley Belcher III) is a former vice cop working on missing persons who still contend with a year-long cold case on a black teenager named Marlon who was never found. Because Edgard Anderson is white and from a prominent family, Ledroit feels the pressure on the case from his boss, Captain Cripp (David Denman). There are also many connections between Edgar’s disappearance and the recent raids on city sex clubs, as well as the push by politicians like Deputy Mayor Costello (Jeff Hephner) that are pushing the entirety of New York City to the brink. The police investigation that Ledroit leads begins to draw lines between the cops, the criminals, the victims, and the upper one percent in a way that hews closer to a series like The Wire rather than a surreal psychological fantasy thriller. Couple that with the focus on Ledroit’s personal life, and the series sometimes feels like it was misnamed, as Eric is more of a secondary element of this story.
As I watched the first episode of Eric, I was invested in the performances, especially Benedict Cumberbatch’s layered portrayal of a broken man who struggles with addiction but also mental illness and daddy issues. Cumberbatch is a great actor and as I progressed through each episode, it became increasingly hard to like Vincent. Every decision Vincent makes forces the audience to dislike the character more and more, eventually making the redemption and resolution of the story feel hollow and unearned. There is also a slew of supporting characters including Vincent’s best friend Lennie (Dan Fogler), building super George (Clarke Peters), club owner Gator (Wade Allain-Marcus), and puppeteers Ellis (Chloe Claudel) and Ronnie (Roberta Colindrez) who exist merely to serve as fodder to pad the story in directions it never seems to invest in, resulting in each episode forcing in red herrings and misdirects that undermine the core mystery Eric is trying to portend. Even Eric himself, voiced by Cumberbatch, never works in the story to the degree the trailers want you to think.
Series creator Abi Morgan, who wrote all six episodes, has a solid record as a playwright and screenwriter, having penned Steve McQueen’s Shame and Meryl Streep’s acclaimed The Iron Lady. All six episodes of Eric were directed by Lucy Forbes, who manages to evoke the grime of mid-1980s New York City with period-appropriate production values and a nice soundtrack of retro tunes. Eric benefits from having a single writer and filmmaker to keep the story looking and feeling consistent, but that does not change the fact that the limited series is too long and scattered. I went along for the ride for the first three hour-long chapters until the direction of the story began to come together. The final three episodes pepper in the reveals bit by bit while having Benedict Cumberbatch, Gaby Hoffman, and McKinley Belcher III repeat actions and decisions they made in earlier episodes, giving the story a rote and redundant feel that careens towards a final episode that plows through resolving the story without it feeling earned in the least. Because this story takes its time for five hours and then rushes through the sixth, I felt cheated out of what could have been a great story.
I think a brilliant idea at the core of Eric is covered with subplots and a thematic message that overwhelms one story with a different one. Abi Morgan has two main ideas that conflict with one another and make Benedict Cumberbatch and the title character feel secondary in their show. Maybe each idea had enough to warrant a full series, but we will never know based on the finished product. Some creative production design and puppet characters are underutilized in a series that is nowhere near as good as the trailers want you to believe. This dark, depressing, unfunny series could have been a masterpiece if it had any idea of what it was trying to be. I am sure some people will disagree with me and may love Eric, but I have not felt this misled by a trailer in a long time.
Eric premieres on May 30th on Netflix.
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Twenty-seven years after the release of the the slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer (watch it HERE) and twenty-six years after the follow-up I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (watch that one HERE), Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. might be reprising the roles of Julie James and Ray Bronson in a new sequel… but while the new film is set for a July 18, 2025 release date, Hewitt doesn’t seemed to be locked into a deal just yet. During a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, she did confirm that she is in talks to play Julie James again.
Hewitt told ET, “(The project is) in the cooker, let me just say that. I’ve done a couple of preliminary phone calls. I keep getting these messages from people going, ‘We’re so excited!’ I’m like, ‘Okay, but the train is moving really fast and I haven’t gotten there yet.’ But it’s nice to know that people are excited at the possibility. Honestly, it’s wild to even think about. Truly, if it comes together, I don’t even know how I’m gonna feel except extremely overwhelmed and grateful. Honestly, terrified because it’s 26 years later. There’s power in being older, there’s power in having gone off and had 3 kids and there’s a sense of, ‘I can do anything now.’ The vulnerability that was Julie James in 1 and 2 definitely doesn’t exist in this one, I don’t think. I’m excited to just show her grown up. I think she’s gotta go nuts. I don’t know who she’s fighting, but whoever it is is not gonna stand a chance. Between me and a stunt double, we got this. I don’t play Julie James dead. That’s what I’m saying. I’ve said that at 18 and I’m gonna say it now at 45 so it doesn’t happen. If it all works out and (the movie) happens, I am ready to bring her back with 26 years of angst, knowledge, kick-assery, which I am turning into a word, and have some fun with it.“
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge) is attached to direct the film from a screenplay by Leah McKendrick (M.F.A.), and McKendrick told Collider a while back that the new sequel will reckon with “some big ideas about hero and villain, right and wrong, how your skeletons come back to haunt you. And in the age of the internet and the age where fame is such a revered concept, the creation of TikTok and social media, who is Julie James in a world where there are no secrets anymore?“ McKendrick also said that when she went in to pitch her take to Sony, the most important things they wanted to hear about were “the accident, the event that kicks it off, and who the killer is.“
I Know What You Did Last Summer was directed by Jim Gillespie from a screenplay by Kevin Williamson that was inspired by a Lois Duncan novel. The film has the following synopsis: A year after running over a fisherman and dumping his body in the water, four friends reconvene when Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) receives a frightening letter telling her that their crime was seen. While pursuing who he thinks is responsible for the letter, Barry (Ryan Phillippe) is run over by a man with a meat hook. The bloodletting only increases from there, as the killer with the hook continues to stalk Julie, Helen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.).
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer was directed by Danny Cannon from a screenplay by Trey Callaway. The synopsis: A year after killing vengeful hit-and-run victim Ben Wills (Muse Watson), who gutted her friends with an iron hook, college student Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) is still shaken by the experience. When her roommate, Karla (Brandy), wins a vacation for four to the Bahamas, she plans to bring along her boyfriend, Tyrell (Mekhi Phifer), attractive Will (Matthew Settle) and Julie. At the resort, Julie starts receiving threatening notes and realizes Ben is still alive.
Are you hoping that Jennifer Love Hewitt will officially sign on for the new sequel to I Know What You Did Last Summer? Share your thoughts on this one by leaving a comment below.
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