Kevin Williamson

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Kevin Meade Williamson (born March 14, 1965) is an American screenwriter, filmmaker, and actor best known for the production of Dawson's Creek (1998–2003), which later became the Vampire Diaries (2013–2015) and, more recently, Tell Me a Story (2018–). He is also known for writing and directing screenplays for the slasher film Scream, as well as its sequels Scream 2 and Scream 4.

He also wrote the screenplay for the films I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Faculty, Teaching Mrs. Tingle (which he also directed) and Cursed.

Early life

Williamson was born in New Bern, North Carolina, the younger brother of Faye and Wade Williamson, a fisherman. He spent his early years in Aransas Pass, Texas, near Corpus Christi, Texas. Williamson's family moved to North Carolina for his high school years. He then attended East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where he earned a BFA in Theatre Arts.

"My mom and dad took me to the Poe museum in Richmond, Virginia, when I was growing up," Entertainment Weekly interviewer Melissa Maerz told me. It was a little house downtown, and The Raven was written on the walls. To read the whole story, you had to move from room to room. "I thought it was the coolest thing in the world."

Personal life

Williamson is openly gay. In 1992, he came out to his friends and family.

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Career

He moved to New York City after graduation to pursue an acting career. Despite being cast in Another World in 1990, he stayed in Los Angeles the next year, appearing in In Living Color, a Roger Corman film, and in music videos. He wrote his first script, Killing Mrs. Tingle (later renamed Teaching Mrs. Tingle), while taking UCLA screenwriting classes, which was purchased by a production company in 1995 and placed on the shelf.

Williamson created a horror movie script influenced by the March 9, 1994 episode of the newsmagazine Turning Point on Danny Rolling, a serial murderer in Gainesville, Florida who preyed on college students, but was originally titled Scary Movie. (e.g.) The characters of the film had seen several classic horror films (e.g. You'll remember all the clichés from Halloween's A Nightmare on Elm Street. In the spring of 1995, Miramax acquired the script for $400,000 for their latest Dimension Films brand. The film, directed by Wes Craven, was renamed Scream and premiered in the United States on December 20, 1996. It was both a commercial blockbuster and a critical success, earning $173 million in ticket sales worldwide, more than half of it.

In 1996, Kevin Williamson received the Saturn Award for Outstanding Writing for his work on Scream.

Dimension Films released Scream 2, a Williamson scripted film that was released in 1997. It was also a critical and box office hit, paving the way for two more installments, Scream 3 (2000) and Scream 4 (2011). Williamson wrote the latter.

After the bidding war over the script, Paul Stupin, an executive at Columbia TriStar Television, heard Scream, and was convinced Williamson was the one to create a television show for his company. Dawson's Creek, a semi-autobiographical story set in a small coastal community not unlike Oriental, was the result. Dawson Leery, a hopeless romantic who is captivated by movies, was the model for the title character, especially Steven Spielberg's. When Joey Potter, the platonic girl next door, was based on a true life friend of Williamson's when he was a student.

The show was first shown on the Fox Network in December 1995, but it was turned down. In 1996, Stupin and Williamson went to, and the WB signed an agreement. "I pitched it as Some Kind of Wonderful," Williamson said of Pump Up the Volume, visits James at 15 years old, Little House on the Prairie," says Williamson. Dawson's Creek premiered on The WB on January 20, 1998, and it was an instant hit that helped launch the newly established television network.

Williamson left the show in 1999 to concentrate on other ventures, one of which was ABC's Wasteland, which failed to attract a large audience and was cancelled after its thirteen-episode first season. In 2003, he returned to Dawson's Creek to pen the two-part series finale.

Williamson wrote his next film, I Know What You Did Last Summer, based on Lois Duncan's 1973 book of the same name. The four friends are centered on four high school classmates who mistakenly run over a man and dump his body in an effort to move forward with their lives a year after the incident when they became the victims of a serial stalker. Despite receiving critical feedback from critics, the film helped launch Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Ryan Phillippe's careers, eventually spawning two sequels, neither of which Williamson was involved.

Williamson resigned from writing the full script for Scream 3 in order to write his first script, titled Killing Mrs. Tingle, a comedy drama based on an event he attended in high school. Mrs. Tingle (as it was renamed after the Columbine High School massacre) taught a class of students as a teacher continued to suffer with their vindictive teacher.

Williamson created Wasteland, a late-night, sexualized version of his earlier film Dawson's Creek, in 1999. It aired for only three episodes in October 1999 before being cancelled. In 2001, the remaining ten episodes were broadcast on Showtime's ShowNext channel.

Williamson created Glory Days as a mid-season replacement for The WB in 2001. The novelist returned to his hometown, a coastal city in Washington state that was experiencing strange events, similar to ABC's Twin Peaks plot. Following the airing of nine episodes, the series, which was debuted in January 2002, was cancelled.

After a failed first shoot starring an almost identical cast before re-writes and re-shoots turned the project into something new, Williamson penned another script that Wes Craven would direct called Cursed. Due to numerous script revisions, delays in development, and low budget due to all the re-shoots, the film struggled to be successful at the box office.

In the bayous of Louisiana, Dimension Films released Williamson's horror film Venom, about a group of teenagers stalked by a crazed killer later this year. Williamson is listed as a filmmaker but not as a writer in the film. The film opened to critical notices and suffered at the box office, grossing less than $900,000.

Williamson launched The CW's successor to the WB network in 2006, a new teen drama, tentatively named Palm Springs. The series, which was later renamed Hidden Palms, was a coming-of-age drama about a homeless teen who moves with his mother and new stepfather to a gated community in Palm Springs, California, where he uncovers dark information about his neighbors and his house's previous tenants. Hidden Palms was supposed to be a midseason replacement, but Pussycat Dolls Present: The Hunt for the Next Doll was not meant to air in March. The pilots debuted on May 30, 2007, to glowing feedback. The series was canceled after eight episodes due to poor viewership numbers. On July 4, 2007, the last episode of the series appeared.

Williamson created The Vampire Diaries, a new TV series based on a L. J. Smith novel series. Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev), who falls in love with vampire Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley), soon finds herself trapped in a love triangle between Stefan and his older brother, Damon (Ian Somerhalder), while the brothers' history is also haunted by Katherine Pierce's (also played by Dobrev). Elena's companions and other people of the fictional town of Mystic Falls, Virginia, are also included in the series. The Vampire Diaries debuted on September 10, 2009, and they have since become a national and international success.

Williamson created The Secret Circle, another book collection by Vampire Diaries writer L. J. Smith, and was directed by him. Six teen witches who form a Circle coven on the fictional town of Chance Harbor, Washington, are the subject of the series.

The Secret Circle premiered on September 15, 2011, just after the Vampire Diaries' third-season premiere. On October 12, 2011, the team was called off for a full season. It was then cancelled.

Williamson was the writer and producer of Scream 4, which opened in June 2010 and was released in theaters on April 15, 2011.

In the 2012–13 television season, Williamson created The Following, which premiered on Fox. Kevin Bacon, a critically acclaimed actor, stars in the series. An ex-FBI agent who is trapped in the middle of a network of serial murderers. Fox cancelled the series on May 8, 2015, but it was announced that the series was headed to Hulu for a possible fourth season.

Williamson also created Stalker, a psychological thriller centered on a pair of detectives who investigate stalking cases for the Los Angeles Police's Threat Management Unit. Liz Friedlander and Maggie Q. directed the pilot. After one season, the series was cancelled on May 11, 2015. Warner Bros. had predicted that the series would continue to be based in Warner Bros.

Williamson created Time After Time, based on the novel of the same name, in 2017, but the storyline was reset in 2017 New York City. It was unable to attract a large enough audience for ABC to be interested.

Williamson wrote "the world's most beloved fairy tales and reimagines them as a chilling and twisted psychological thriller" in 2018. Friedlander (who also supervised episodes of The Vampire Diaries, The Following, and Stalker for Williamson) and starred James Wolk, Billy Magnussen, Dania Ramirez, Kim Cattrall, Danielle Campbell, and Paul Wesley, along with Friedlander. In Williamson's previous film, The Vampire Diaires, the actress was one of the principal protagonists. In October 31, 2018, CBS All Access's show premiered.

Williamson will be the executive producer for the fifth installment of the Scream franchise, which was produced by Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin in March 2020. The film was released on January 14, 2022.

Williamson would reunite with Julie Plec in January 2022 for an adaptation of the comic Dead Day for Peacock.

In February 2022, it was announced that a sequel to Scream (2022) had been approved, with a target launch date of March 31, 2023, with Williamson as an executive producer.

Julie Plec, co-creator of The Vampire Diaries with Williamson, revealed that she, Williamson, and another TVDU executive producer, Brett Matthews, were working on their fourth show in the universe together in June 2022.

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