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Centered on four high school friends who accidentally run over a man and dump his body in an attempt to go on with their lives, the plot focuses on the four friends a year after the accident when they become the victims of a serial stalker. In 1997, Williamson penned his next film, I Know What You Did Last Summer, based on a 1973 novel of the same name by Lois Duncan.
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He later returned to Dawson's Creek to pen the two-part series finale in 2003. In 1999, Williamson left the show to focus on other endeavors, among them ABC's Wasteland, which failed to attract a sizable audience and was canceled after its thirteen-episode first season. Williamson said, "I pitched it as Some Kind of Wonderful, meets Pump Up the Volume, meets James at 15, meets My So-Called Life, meets Little House on the Prairie." Dawson's Creek premiered on The WB on January 20, 1998, and was an immediate hit that helped launch the newly created television network. Then in 1996, Stupin and Williamson went to, and struck a deal with, The WB. In December 1995, the show was pitched to the Fox Network, where Stupin had been an executive, but it was rejected. Joey Potter, the platonic girl-next-door, was based on a real life friend of Williamson's when he was young. Williamson was the model for the title character, Dawson Leery, a hopeless romantic who is obsessed with movies-especially those of Steven Spielberg. The result was Dawson's Creek, a semi-autobiographical tale set in a small coastal community not unlike Oriental. Paul Stupin, an executive at Columbia TriStar Television, read Scream after the bidding war for the script and was convinced Williamson was just the man to create a television series for his company. It, too, was a critical and box office hit and paved the way for two more installments, Scream 3 (2000) and Scream 4 (2011). In 1997, Dimension Films released Scream 2, also written by Williamson. Kevin Williamson earned the Saturn Award for Best Writing in 1996 for his work on Scream. It became a commercial blockbuster and critical success-ultimately drawing $173 million in ticket sales worldwide. Directed by Wes Craven, the film was renamed Scream, and released in The United States on December 20, 1996. Miramax bought the script for $400,000 for their new Dimension Films label in the spring of 1995. Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street) and knew all the clichés. Its characters had seen many classic horror movies (e.g.
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Inspired by the March 9, 1994, episode of the newsmagazine Turning Point on Danny Rolling, a serial killer in Gainesville, Florida, who preyed on college students, Williamson wrote a horror movie script, originally titled Scary Movie. Mainstream breakthrough (1995–1998) Scream Tingle) which was bought by a production company in 1995 and put on the shelf. While taking classes on screenwriting at UCLA he wrote his first script, Killing Mrs. Though he landed a part on the soap opera Another World in 1990, he moved to Los Angeles the following year where he had small parts in In Living Color, a Roger Corman film, Hard Run, and in music videos. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world." Career Early career (1990–1994) Īfter graduation, he moved to New York City to pursue an acting career. You had to move from room to room to read the whole story. It was a little house downtown, and The Raven was written on the walls. He told Entertainment Weekly interviewer Melissa Maerz, "When I was growing up, my mom and dad took me to the Poe museum in Richmond, Virginia.
He then attended East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where he received a BFA in Theatre Arts. Williamson's family returned to North Carolina for his high school years.
He spent his early years in Aransas Pass, Texas, near Corpus Christi, Texas. Williamson was born in New Bern, North Carolina, the younger son of Faye and Wade Williamson, a fisherman. 2.4 Return and newfound success (2009–present).
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