Craig William Macneill is set to add another genre credit to a résumé that already includes 2015's The Boy (not the one with Brahms; watch it HERE), 2018's Lizzie (watch that one HERE), and episodes of Channel Zero, The Twilight Zone, Castle Rock, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, NOS4A2, Monsterland, and the upcoming series Them: Covenant. Macneill has signed on to direct the pilot episode of the Amazon series I Know What You Did Last Summer.
The I Know What You Did Last Summer TV show is being described as a "modern take" on the 1997 slasher movie (you can watch it HERE), which was based on a 1973 novel by Lois Duncan. Duncan wasn't too happy that her thriller novel was turned into a slasher.
Directed by Jim Gillespie from a screenplay by Kevin Williamson, the '97 film had the following synopsis:
After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. But exactly one year later, the dead man returns from his watery grave, and he's looking for more than an apology.
Preacher and Gossip Girl alum Sara Goodman is writing the Amazon series and executive producing it with Macneill, Shay Hatten, Erik Feig, Original Film's Neal Moritz and Pavun Shetty, and Atomic Monster's James Wan, Rob Hackett, and Michael Clear. Sony Pictures Television co-produces with Amazon Studios.
I'm looking forward to seeing how this series turns out, but at the same time I can't help but wonder what it would have been like if Mike Flanagan had made the I Know What You Did Last Summer remake he and Jeff Howard were hired to write back in 2014.