SUMMER MADNESS
BACK IN 1997, JENNIFER LOVE Hewitt learned the hard way that when you leave a man for dead, you should make sure he’s really dead. Hit-and-run morality slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer pitted her against a murderous fisherman in the coastal town of Southport, New Carolina, scene of a seemingly fatal car accident. Adapted from Lois Duncan’s 1973 YA novel by Scream writer Kevin Williamson and director Jim Gillespie, the film scored over $125 million at the box office, and birthed two campy sequels and now a brand new TV series.
“I saw the movie when it first came out and I was a fan,” says Sara Goodman, the writer handed the task of taking the franchise in a bold new direction with an eight-part series for Amazon Prime. “I mean, how can you not be a fan of that movie? It’s great! My biggest fear is disappointing fans of the movie who come in expecting the movie.”
The solution? Do something different while retaining
