Joshua Patrick Dudley
Writer and planned director
We're diving into the I Know What You Did Last Summer universe!
For generations, Southport, New Hampshire parents have used the legend of the Fisherman to keep children away from the docks after dark.
According to the story, he waits near the boats, service gates, and dark ends of the piers after the harbor closes down. He wears a long wet slicker and a wide fisherman's hat that keeps his face hidden in shadow. Black gloves cover his hands, heavy rubber boots carry him across the docks, and he always holds a large steel fishing hook in one hand.
Children are warned that he may call to them from farther down the dock, ask for help with a boat, offer to show them something in the water, or simply wait where the dock lights stop reaching. Parents tell their children never to follow anyone toward the boats and never to play on the docks at night because the Fisherman takes children who wander too far from the lights.
In some versions of the story, he catches children by their clothing with his hook and drags them toward the water. In others, the hook is the last thing they see before they disappear. Some parents simply warn that, once the Fisherman raises the hook, it is already too late to run.
The details change between families, but the image never does: the long wet slicker, the wide fisherman's hat, the hidden face, the black gloves, the rubber boots, and the steel hook carried in his hand.
But now, someone has put on the slicker, raised up the hook, and turned Southport's childhood warning into something real.
Release & Reception
- Status: Screenplay in progress; casting not yet announced
The screenplay is still in progress. No trailer, festival screening, public screener, completed cut or release date has been announced.
