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New ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ Prequel ‘Apartment 7A’ Has Been Rated “R”
Coming this Halloween from the Paramount+ streaming service is Apartment 7A, a brand new prequel to the Roman Polanski horror classic Rosemary’s Baby (1968).
Rosemary’s Baby, an adaptation of the same-titled novel from Ira Levin, is primarily set in the Bramford apartment building in New York City, and that location will be the connective tissue for the upcoming prequel. From director Natalie Erika James (Relic), Apartment 7A will be taking us back to the iconic location for a new story that takes place before Rosemary’s Baby.
The film from Paramount has been rated “R” for “Some violent content and drug use.”
Set in 1965 New York City, the film tells the story prior to the horror classic Rosemary’s Baby, exploring what happened in the apartment before Rosemary Woodhouse moved in.
In Apartment 7A, “When a struggling, young dancer (Julia Garner) suffers a devastating injury, she finds herself drawn in by dark forces when a peculiar, well-connected, older couple promises her a shot at fame.”
“Apartment 7A is the perfect way to kick off the Halloween season,” said Jeff Grossman, Executive Vice President, Programming, Paramount+. “Director Natalie Erika James and the prodigious creative team have crafted a chilling and clever new entry into the genre.”
The psychological thriller is a Paramount+ original movie in association with Paramount Pictures and is based on the novel Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin. Directed by James, with a screen story by Skylar James and a script by Natalie Erika James & Christian White and Skylar James, the film is executive produced by Vicki Dee Rock and Alexa Ginsburg, and is produced by John Krasinski, Allyson Seeger, p.g.a, Michael Bay, Andrew Form, p.g.a, and Brad Fuller.
Stay tuned for more on the Rosemary’s Baby prequel Apartment 7A as we learn it.
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Filming is getting underway this year on director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s I Know What You Did Last Summer, a sequel to the 1997 slasher movie that will reportedly feature fresh faces alongside legacy characters. But will the new movie pull a Halloween 2018 and effectively erase the events of the slasher movie’s two sequels from this particular timeline?
Rumors and reports over the weekend indicated that I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025 will indeed operate only as a sequel to the ’97 movie, but Jennifer Kaytin Robinson has taken to social media this week to let us know that those rumors are very much untrue.
Kaytin Robinson tweets, “ISKWYDLS is canon.” She’s of course referring to 1998’s I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, the original sequel to the 1997 slasher movie.
That movie was followed by I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer in 2006, but it’s probably safe to say the events of that movie won’t be referenced in the 2025 reboot.
Madelyn Cline (“Outer Banks”) and Camila Mendes (“Riverdale”) are in talks to lead Sony’s reboot alongside Sarah Pidgeon (“Gotham”), Tyriq Withers (“Atlanta”) and Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid). Last we heard, both Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. were also in negotiations to potentially star alongside the fresh new faces.
The franchise will return to theaters on July 18, 2025.
it is definitely not? ISKWYDLS is cannon 🫶🏻 hope this helps https://t.co/paS4GQVN4z
— Jenn Kaytin Robinson (@JennKaytin) July 31, 2024
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge) is on board to direct the new installment in the franchise for Sony, with Leah McKendrick (M.F.A.) writing the original draft of the screenplay. The latest draft, however, was written by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson & Sam Lansky.
Jim Gillespie directed the original I Know What You Did Last Summer back in 1997, written by Kevin Williamson (Scream) and based on Lois Duncan’s novel. The film spawned sequels in 1998 and 2006. Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. only came back for that first sequel.
More recently, the franchise returned with Amazon’s short-lived television series.
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