10 Horror Franchises Set For A Huge 2024

4. I Know What You Did Last Summer

There's a lot of moving parts right now, but even if a new Last Summer movie doesn't arrive in 2024, this year marks the biggest year for the property in forever. Of course, that would be because there's a legacy sequel in the works.

Some of you may be asking what the term "legacy sequel" actually means. In that regard, think 2022's Scream; as in, a film that exists within the established canon, brings back certain familiar faces, and that introduces new main characters who can help drive the franchise forward in the future.

While the returns of Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. as Julie James and Ray Bronson, respectively, have been heavily rumoured, they've yet to be made official. Prinze Jr. has discussed an openness to returning to the Ray role, while Hewitt used an appearance on Michael Rosenbaum's Inside of You podcast to boldly state she'd "do it, for sure" where it pertains to picking things up with Julie.

Presumably ignoring the awful I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer - which featured none of the protagonists of the previous two films and made the franchise's villainous fisherman a supernatural presence - this new Last Summer film was confirmed in early-2023, with Sweet/Vicious' Jennifer Kaytin Robinson to direct and a screenplay from Scrambled's Leah McKendrick. Already, McKendrick has promised a "less is more approach" for a picture which will feature a whodunit mystery; is Ben Willis back and causing carnage, or is it someone else donning the fisherman get-up?

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