After James Wan took on production duties for the pilot episode for I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Amazon has given the pilot a full season order.
THR reports that the series will be executive produced and written by Sara Goodman (Preacher, Gossip Girl) and “the show will share a premise with the movie, in which a group of teenagers are stalked by a killer a year after a fatal accident on their graduation night, but with a modern spin on the material.”
“We are thrilled to have I Know What You Did Last Summer with our incredible partners at Amazon Studios,” said Sony Pictures TV Studios co-president Jason Clodfelter. “Neal Moritz and Original Film’s development consistently fires on all cylinders and that is proven once again with Sara Goodman’s contemporary and pulsating character weaving suspense thriller.”
Wan is producing through Atomic Monster, with Rob Hackett and Michael Clear.
The Jim Gillespie-directed franchise-starter I Know What You Did Last Summer was released in 1997, written by Kevin Williamson and based on Lois Duncan’s 1973 novel. The hit slasher movie was followed by two sequels: I Still Know What You Did Last Summer in 1998 and the direct-to-video I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer in 2006.
Williamson wrote the script for IKWYDLS before Scream, but after Scream became a huge horror hit he sold the script for Summer.
IKWYDLS is a guilty pleasure of mine, and even though the film has it’s flaws, I love that you feel for the characters before they’re killed off one one.
I also think Sarah Michelle Gellar’s character should have been the lead instead of Jennifer Love Hewitt, because Helen’s prom queen role seemed to be more fleshed out than Julie’s.
Even her chase scene leading up to her death was epic.
I also think James Wan producing this is a great idea, and I’m hoping the series will take all the cool things about the original film (the dynamic/conflict between the friends), and incorporate it in the show. I also want to really cool kill scenes.
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