James Van Der Beek had a plan for a Dawson’s Creek reboot earlier than his premature dying.
Dawson’s Creek creator Kevin Williamson opened as much as Esquire about what the late actor, who died at age 48 after battling stage 3 colorectal most cancers, envisioned for the present’s revival.
“I’ve at all times been immune to Dawson’s Creek. I at all times felt like, ‘Properly, we did that. We completed it.’ Within the final episode, we jumped 5 years,” Williamson, 60, stated, explaining that he didn’t really feel just like the present wanted a reboot.
“We went to the long run. The final episode of that present was the remake. So I really feel very okay with that,” he stated. “And I don’t really feel the necessity to return to that world, as a lot as I like them and would like to.”
James Van Der Beek has died at age 48 after his public most cancers battle. “Our beloved James David Van Der Beek handed peacefully this morning. He met his ultimate days with braveness, religion, and beauty,” an announcement shared through the actor’s Instagram on Wednesday, February 11, learn. “There’s a lot to share relating to his needs, (…)
Van Der Beek, nevertheless, had a imaginative and prescient for the solid members to reunite. “James and I talked about rebooting Dawson’s Creek a number of instances,” Williamson shared. “He wished to do it. And actually, there was a second the place he was going to put in writing it — and he had a very nice thought for it.”
Williamson continued, gushing over Van Der Beek’s ideas, “He had a fantastic plan. Then I feel he received on a present and all people received busy. It by no means occurred. However there was a number of discuss it.”
The actor’s dying was introduced through an announcement on his Instagram web page on February 11. “Our beloved James David Van Der Beek handed peacefully this morning,” the message learn. “He met his ultimate days with braveness, religion, and beauty.”
The assertion continued, “There’s a lot to share relating to his needs, love for humanity and the sacredness of time. These days will come. For now we ask for peaceable privateness as we grieve our loving husband, father, son, brother, and pal.”
Van Der Beek shared his prognosis in November 2024. “I’ve been privately coping with this prognosis and have been taking steps to resolve it, with the help of my unbelievable household,” he informed Individuals. “There’s purpose for optimism, and I’m feeling good.” He additionally shared that he had “loads to reside for.”
“I assumed, ‘That is both going to take me out of the physique, or it’s going to show me really reside in it,’” he stated.
He later informed Further in March 2025 that he may “see the end line” of his most cancers battle.
Van Der Beek deliberate to reunite together with his Dawson’s Creek costars in March 2025, however needed to miss the occasion, which Michelle Williams organized to learn him and the nonprofit charity F Most cancers, because of a well being setback.
“You possibly can think about how gutted I used to be when two abdomen viruses conspired to knock me out of fee and hold me grounded on the worst doable second,” Van Der Beek wrote through Instagram forward of the reunion. “Regardless of each effort … I gained’t get to be there. I gained’t get to face on that stage and thank each soul within the theater for displaying up for me, and in opposition to most cancers, once I wanted it most.”