‘Oculus’ writers to reboot ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’

Do you still know what you did 17 summers ago? Sony is looking to remind moviegoers with a reboot of the teen slasher flick “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”

“Oculus” director and co-scribe Mike Flanagan has been enlisted to write the new film with partner Jeff Howard, and original “Summer” producer Neal Moritz will reprise his duties, The Times has confirmed. (A director for the movie has yet to be named.) Deadline Hollywood first reported the news.

Released in 1997, “I Know What You Did Last Summer” told the story of four teenage friends — played by Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe — who are stalked by a mysterious killer a year after covering up a fatal hit-and-run accident.

The film grossed $125 million at the worldwide box office and spawned the sequel “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer” a year later. (A third installment in the series featured a new cast and went straight to video.)

Like its predecessor, the new “I Know What You Did Last Summer” will be an adaptation of Lois Duncan’s 1973 young-adult suspense novel of the same name.

Flanagan and Howard’s chiller, “Oculus,” meanwhile, garnered solid reviews upon its release in April and grossed $27 million domestically on a $5-million budget.

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