I Know What You Did Last Summer is slick, occasionally self-aware, and made by people who get what made the original tick—even if they can’t quite replicate it

The director of the slasher reboot says the decision to cut the actors’ scene “sucks”, but was a necessary one.

“History repeating itself! Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. at the I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER premiere in 1997 and again in 2025,” Gellar’s friend, Evan Ross Katz, wrote on Instagram beneath a side-by-side shot from both carpets.

Lola Tung and Nicholas Alexander Chavez have been cut from I Know What You Did Last Summer, a disappointing update that director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson just confirmed in an interview with People. Apparently, Lola and Nicholas' scene was intended to be the opening of the slasher film, but it didn't "fit" in.