Sarah Michelle Gellar Says She Won’t Reprise ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Role In Sequel Film: “I Am Dead”

Sarah Michelle Gellar is making it clear she won’t return to the I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel film because her character is dead.

With a sequel to the slasher film in the works, many fans speculated if Gellar would reprise her role of beauty queen Helen Shivers.

“I am dead,” Gellar told People about the fate her character faced in the 1997 film.

However, Gellar’s husband, Freddie Prinze Jr., will reprise his role, and the Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum said she will be part of the film in an “unofficial” capacity.

“My best friend [Jennifer Kaytin Robinson] is directing it, so we joke that I have an unofficial job, which is I am continuity,” Gellar told the publication. “So I’m always the one telling her, ‘Well, that would happen, or that wouldn’t happen with those characters,’ so I do have kind of an unofficial job title.”

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Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is directing the latest installment of the horror film franchise, written by Sam Lansky and Kaytin Robinson from a draft by Leah McKendrick. Neal Moritz is producing with the film slated for release on July 18, 2025.

The previously announced cast includes Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers and Jonah Haur-King. Plot details for this latest installment are unknown.

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I Know What You Did Last Summer was released in 1997 and starred Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Johnny Galecki, and Bridgette Wilson. The original film, directed by Jim Gillespie and written by Kevin Williamson, was loosely based on Lois Duncan’s 1973 novel of the same name.