Over two films, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. solidified their status as horror royalty nearly 30 years ago when I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, had audiences hooked until the very last second. This summer, we will all know what they did last summer, as the pair will reprise their roles as Julie James and Ray Bronson, respectively, in Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s highly-anticipated sequel, aptly titled I Know What You Did Last Summer. But one question lingers from the original set of films — didn’t Julie and Ray die? At the end of the 1998 sequel, after they seemingly vanquished their foe, the final seconds see Julie being pulled under the bed, while Ray — completely unaware of the terror at play in the bedroom — is brushing his teeth and appears to be the next in line to die.

While speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Robinson revealed how she got around this small yet noticeable bump in the road, and it all ties back into the first film.

“So the way that I’ve approached the franchise is that I feel like those final scenes in the first two movies live outside the cannon, because in the first movie she gets attacked through the shower, through the glass door, and in the second movie, she gets pulled under the bed. So they’re both alive and well, and what I will say is that we have continued the tradition in our film.”

No Stone Left Unturned

In addition to the return of Hewitt’s Julie and Prinze Jr.’s Ray, there’s another member of the survival crew that audiences have been dying to know the fate of. While their high school pals, Helen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Barry (Ryan Phillippe), may not have survived the initial slayings, their friend (and Julie’s roommate), Karla (Brandy Norwood), made it out of the sequel fully intact. But, that’s where her journey appears to have ended, as it was never announced that the R&B singer would be reprising the role for the latest film.

Giving fans a promising update, Robinson teased,

“Here’s what I feel like I can say without spoiling anything. We do find out what happened to her. I’m a huge fan of this franchise, and I came at this as a huge fan of this franchise. So that’s all I’ll say.”

I Know What You Did Last Summer arrives in cinemas on July 18.

via Collider