RW446 - I Still Know What You Did Last Summer Rewatch

 

In this episode of the I Know What You Did Last Summer Rewatch, Cory and Nathan are kicking back and getting slashed as they discuss part 2 "I Still Know."

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Scheduling conflicts with Dawson's Creek, The Faculty, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, and gearing up to direct Teaching Mrs. Tingle prevented Kevin Williamson from writing the screenplay for both this film and Scream 3 (2000) after having written their predecessors.

Director Danny Cannon also directed Bjork’s “Play Dead” music video, and Judge Dredd with Sylvester Stellon before he joined this project.

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., and Muse Watson are the only actors to reprise their roles from the previous film, with Sarah Michelle Gellar only reappearing as Helen Shivers via a photograph.

Jennifer Love Hewitt signed on because she thought that Jim Gillespie, who directed the original, would also direct the sequel. 

This film would be the last time Jennifer Love Hewitt appeared in a horror film, not wishing to be typecast as a scream queen.

In the film, they are said to be in the Bahamas, but filming took place in El Tamarindo, Jalisco, Mexico. The resort was abandoned after a large storm had caused significant damage several years earlier, and the crew fixed it up enough for shooting. The same area was later used to film the Broken Lizard movie Club Dread.

Early promotional material, including the theatrical trailer, credit Stephen Gaghan as co-writer of the screenplay. In the final credits, only Trey Callaway is credited.

Just like with the first film, Roger Ebert included this on his "Most Hated" list.

Due to the negative critical reaction to the film upon its release, Freddie Prinze Jr. admits that he has never seen the film because of its reputation.

Body Count: 10 - Dave, Darick, Olga, Titus Telesco, Hotel Manager, Tyrell, Estes, Nancy, Will Benson, and Ben Willis.

In the Futurama episode “Jurassic Bark,” a subtitle appears, referencing 1998 as "The summer of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.

In 1998, a paperback version of the screenplay for I Still Know What You Did Last Summer was published by Pocket Books.

A sequel, I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, was announced in 2000, and was originally meant to star survivors Jennifer Love Hewitt, Brandy Norwood and Freddie Prinze Jr. again. However, the film was left alone for a while and the original script, which involved Jennifer, Brandy and Freddie, was scrapped and a whole new script was written. Despite the script being rewritten, Hewitt was rumored to have a cameo appearance in the new sequel, but never made it.

Mekhi Phifer had just appeared in the video clip for the Brandy & Monica song “The Boy is Mine” before he and Brandy were cast together in this film.

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