Will Sarah Michelle Gellar return for the ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ sequel?

With an ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ sequel in the works, fans are asking if Sarah Michelle Gellar will reprise her role despite the fact that her character, Helen Shivers, was killed off.

Geller doesn’t think this is likely.

Released in 1997, ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ was a slasher film that starred Gellar alongside her now husband, Freddie Prinze Jr., as well as Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ryan Phillippe and Johnny Galecki among others.

According to Deadline, Prinze Jr. and Hewitt are in talks to have potential involvement in the sequel.

However, Gellar’s stance is clear.

“That’s funny, I heard that news as well,” Gellar told ET. “And one of my best friends [Jennifer Kaytin Robinson] is directing it. It’s interesting, isn’t it?

“As I explained to Jennifer, I am dead. I am dead dead. On ice. She’s like, ‘Are you sure you’re dead dead?’ I’m like, ‘It’s soap dish dead. I don’t have a head. I’m dead.’”

The future of ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’

The original film was loosely inspired by the 1973 book of the same name by Lois Duncan.

There was also a television series which aired from October to November 2021 for eight episodes. The series was canceled after only one season.

While little is known about the sequel film, Gellar teased that more information is on the way.

“My husband is starting a podcast going over old horror movies and the first one that they’re doing on his podcast is ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’,” she said.

“So he was at the house watching it and I honestly don’t think that I’d seen it since it came out. I was watching that scene when she’s like two seconds away from getting to the party and then they get her… I know.”