He’s again to his roots.
Kevin Williamson, who first rose to fame creating “Dawson’s Creek,” is heading again to a waterside small city group together with his new Netflix drama, “The Waterfront.”
“It was sort of loosely inspired by my own family and my dad – and growing up in the ‘80s as the son of a fisherman,” Williamson, 60, completely informed The Publish.
Premiering Thursday, June 19, “The Waterfront” follows the Buckley household, who preside over a fishing empire within the coastal North Carolina city of Havenport.
With the intention to preserve their enterprise afloat, they’ve dipped their toes into the flawed aspect of the regulation, together with by smuggling medication on their boats.
The household contains hard-drinking patriarch Harlan (Holt McCallany, “Mindhunter”), his formidable spouse Belle (Maria Bello), and their grownup kids. They embrace recovering addict daughter Bree (Melissa Benoist, “Supergirl”) and washed up former soccer star son Cane (Jake Weary), who clashes together with his dad and struggles to be a gift husband to his spouse, Peyton (Danielle Campbell). Topher Grace performs a drug lord.
Williamson stated that his dad had some similarities to Harlan as a result of he was “a fisherman who got into a little trouble smuggling some drugs on his fishing boat.”
“But it was really small time stuff,” he added. “He was caught and arrested. He paid the price.”
Williamson’s father is now deceased, however he stated he informed him that he was going to make use of his life as inspiration for a present.
“He always said, ‘Wait till I’m dead.’ But I do know my dad has a big sense of humor and I’m sure wherever he is, he’s happy knowing I did this show.”
The “Scream” screenwriter stated that his father was “the best man ever, and so I was like, ‘how did such a good man take a left turn?’ I feel like we’re in a world now where everyone has a side hustle….Everyone’s trying to survive and they’re doing what they can just to pay the bills. I really wanted to tap in that struggle.”
“The Waterfront” looks like a mixture of “Yellowstone” and “Ozark,” however with the setting of a household fishing empire.
“‘Yellowstone’ was my dad’s favorite show, and I used to call him up after every episode and we would chat about it because he loved it, and it was something that sort of bonded us,” Williamson stated.
“And so it did inspire a lot,” he informed The Publish. “‘The Waterfront’ has its own thing going on, but I would say that it lives in the same grocery aisle with those other shows.”
“The Waterfront” is darker and extra grownup than Williamson’s first present. However he quipped, “If all the kids in ‘Dawson’s Creek’ grew up and started to do bad things, then you have ‘The Waterfront.’”
“I have a three-year plan and a five-year plan,” he stated of the present’s potential future. “So I would say four seasons, let’s go with that. I do kind of have a blueprint for the second and third season, for sure. And maybe we could go further. That would be great.”
