Fans won't see Lola Tung and Nicholas Alexander Chavez in the new I Know What You Did Last Summer despite the pair filming a scene for the slasher sequel.

It was reported in November 2024 that the Summer I Turned Pretty actress, 22, and the Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story actor, 25, were cast in the horror movie, which hits theaters July 18. However, their roles were ultimately cut from the final film.

Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson tells PEOPLE that Tung and Chavez's scene was intended as the opener of the movie but it wound up not fitting with the rest of the film.

"In every movie, it's best laid plans, and then you edit the movie and you put it together and you go, 'I love this in a vacuum. This is a fantastic scene. But it doesn't fit in the movie,' " says Kaytin Robinson, who also directed 2022's Do Revenge.

"It was just one of those situations where it had nothing to do with Lola and Nicholas — they are both so fantastic. I really would love to work with them again. I loved working with them. They did a fabulous job," she continues. "But in the larger tapestry of the film, it just didn't fit."

Kaytin Robinson says, "It sucks because you don't want to do that to those actors. And it sucks when you love something as a scene but that scene just doesn't work in the final cut of the film."

I Know What You Did Last Summer's latest installment sees the return of original stars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. 28 years after the first film. The main cast includes Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Sarah Pidgeon, Jonah Hauer-King and Tyriq Withers.

Chavez previously told The Hollywood Reporter about signing on to the project.

"All of the horror fans are going to come for me as soon as they see this [interview], but I had no idea what I Know What You Did Last Summer was before they came to me with the idea," he said. "Really, I live under a rock. Please don't give me a hard time about it."

The Grotesquerie star said his girlfriend made him sit down and watch the 1997 original. "It was just so much fun. ... I just had a good time," he said. "So I got back on the phone and I talked to the director, Jen, and I was listening to her pitch or whatever of what she thought the direction it should go in, and I was like, 'Yeah.' I was just so excited. So I flew down to Australia, and we filmed the thing. God, I just had a really great time."

"When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences," a logline for the film teases. "A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they’re forced to confront a horrifying truth: Someone knows what they did last summer…and is hell-bent on revenge."

"As one by one the friends are stalked by a killer, they discover this has happened before, and they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport Massacre of 1997 for help."

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