Queer scribe and Dawson’s Creek creator Kevin Williamson is returning to the aging adolescent drama almost four years after leaving. Williamson, who found big-screen success with the Scream horror films, was approached by the series’ stars and asked to write the final chapter in the small-screen lives of Dawson, Joey, and Pacey. The two-hour series finale, set to air on the WB May 14, is expected to envision what the Dawson’s denizens will be like several years into the future. Williamson will donate his earnings from the finale to GLSEN. Also keeping Williamson busy are his producing and writing chores on the feature film Cursed, his take on the werewolf genre, directed by Wes Craven.
Faye Plays Royal Fag Hag
Mommie Dearest star Faye Dunaway is set to portray American divorcee-slash-duchess Wallis Simpson in a film about the socialite’s love life, The Bahama Triangle. British actor Michael York will play King Edward VIII, who abdicated his throne in 1936 to marry Simpson. The film’s plot centers on the duchess’ alleged affair with American Jimmy Donahue, the openly gay heir to the Woolworth fortune, whom Simpson reputedly took as a secret lover after she and the duke began living in exile in the Bahamas. Rumor has it that former 90210 hottie Jason Priestley has been offered the role of Donahue. The $5 million film is set to roll before cameras this summer.
Meet My Gay Parents
Out producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, known for feature films and TV movies (Chicago, The Music Man), are going into the sitcom business. Along with homo-friendly writers Anne Flett-Giordano and Chuck Ranberg, they’re producing a pilot that could end up on ABC’s fall 2003 schedule. The untitled pilot follows the lives of a young straight couple trying to deal with their very different parents. One set of parents is gay and affluent, while the other is blue-collar and conservative. Flett-Giordano and Ranberg know a thing or two about writing gay—they worked on Nathan Lane’s short-lived Encore, Encore! and spent years writing for gay-sensible Frasier.
Rudin Can’t Dance
Gay uber-producer Scott Rudin isn’t resting on the laurels he received for The Hours. He recently recruited director Robert Benton, of Kramer vs. Kramer fame, to direct Delmore Can’t Dance, a character-driven drama written for the screen by Bastard Out of Carolina scribe Anne Meredith. The new film’s plot centers on a guy named Delmore who thinks the world revolves around him. After a stint in jail for brawling, he goes to visit his former female fuck buddy and is stunned to discover she’s actually a lesbian living with another woman. The incident sends Delmore off on an unlikely path to enlightenment.