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Though sharing the same premise as the late- 90s film, the series is in fact based on the 1973 novel by Lois Duncan.
I Know What You Did Last Summer follows a group of teenagers who are stalked by a mysterious hook-wielding killer the year after they covered up their involvement in a fatal accident on graduation night.
Sara Goodman (
Preacher) will write and executive produce. Craig Macneill will direct and executive produce the first episode. Production is set to begin in Hawaii this month.
And finally, no, you don’t have deja-vu, nor are you living in an endless loop (although at times it does feel like you are); Andy Samberg’s just going back to the land of sci-fi comedy. According to
I Know What You Did Last Summer
series from Sara Goodman is a perfectly twisted update to the iconic slasher movie,” Albert Cheng, COO and co-head of television at Amazon Studios, previously said in a statement. “
Any way you slice it, our global Prime Video customers will love this modern take on the fan favorite film.”
The 1997 film version, directed by Jim Gillespie with a script by Kevin Williamson, stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze, Jr. as a group of high school students who accidentally hit and kill a man with their car one night. Although they believe they have successfully covered up their crime, the group finds themselves at the receiving end of a slasher killer’s serial rampage one year later.
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER: JUMANJI Actress Madison Iseman To Lead Cast Of Amazon Series
We recently found out that a new young adult horror series based on 90s slasher
I Know What You Did Last Summer is in development at Amazon, and the show s up-and-coming cast has now been announced.
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1/12/2021
Amazon Studios is developing a new YA horror series based on hit 90s slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer, and the principal cast (via Deadline) has now been announced.
Madison Iseman (
Light as a Feather), Ezekiel Goodman, Ashley Moore (
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping), Sebastian Amoruso (
I Know What You Did Last Summer Series Adds Jumanji Star and More
A new adaptation of
I Know What You Did Last Summer was announced last October by Amazon Studios, with the series now enlisting a roster of young talent to star in the series. Much like the original 1997 film, this new take on the material is enlisting a number of emerging and lesser-known stars who have already starred in a variety of exciting projects, with this new project surely elevating their fame to new heights. Details about the characters each actor is playing have yet to be revealed.