Brandy might have some top-secret summer plans.

The highly anticipated sequel I Know What You Did Last Summer hits theaters in July, with legacy cast members Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. confirmed to reprise their roles as survivors Julie and Ray.

They advise a new generation of stars facing the killer consequences of dark secrets, played by Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Jonah-Hauer King and Tyriq Withers.

Back in August, while promoting her horror film The Front Room, Brandy, 46, expressed interest in returning to the slasher franchise. Her character, Julie’s college pal Karla Wilson, survived the events of 1998’s sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.

Will Brandy return in the upcoming installment? “You’ll have to go see the movie,” teases director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, keeping that answer and other potential spoilers under wraps.

Robinson, known for 2022’s Do Revenge, wrote the new film with Leah McKendrick and Sam Lansky. She tells PEOPLE they “approached it like super fans, so I think people are going to be really happy.”

“All the things that you want to see in this movie, you’re going to see in this movie,” Robinson adds.

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer also starred Mekhi Phifer, Matthew Settle, Jack Black and Bill Cobbs, as the story sent Julie on a weekend getaway to a stormy island resort with the fisherman killer lurking.

The events of that sequel still apply to the upcoming entry. “We actually got in a really big fight about the canon of I Still Know,” says Robinson of the story development process with co-writer Lansky. “One of our first big fights together about this project was we were both talking about just how much weight it should hold in Julie’s story — because what happens in that movie is so, so, so, so crazy that it would probably make you never trust anyone again.”

Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. in “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (2025).Matt Kennedy/Columbia Pictures

“I was like, ‘Okay, but this is a fun horror movie. And I don’t think we should make it a meditation on the fact that this woman was lured to the Bahamas by someone she thought wanted to date her but actually wanted to kill her.”

Adds Robinson, “We have one really, really fantastic nod to I Still Know What You Did Last Summer that people are going to love.”

With the new film, they’re “embracing” the absurdities and going for “balls-to-the-wall fun,” says the director. Add in the scary parts too, of course: Those horror elements are “ratcheted up to a hundred in this — it’s much more brutal.”

“There’s definitely more methodology to every kill in this movie, unlike the first, which is kind of just him stalking them and going after them,” she says. “There’s not a lot of gore or blood or violence in the first one. There certainly is in this one.”

From left: Jonah Hauer-King, Sarah Pidgeon, Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline and Tyriq Withers in “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (2025).Brook Rushton/Columbia Pictures

While there will be plenty of ’90s nostalgia and throwback references peppered throughout, 2025’s I Know What You Did Last Summer will also be accessible to newbie fans.

“We very purposefully wanted to make this movie both for fans of the original who are coming to this and excited about the easter eggs but also for a new audience that can find I Know and almost watch the first one like a prequel,” explains Robinson. “That was very front of mind for me as we made this movie.”

“You don’t need to do any research coming into I Know What You Did Last Summer,” she says. “You just have to have a really good time.”

I Know What You Did Last Summer is in theaters July 18.