James Van Der Beek's final role will be released posthumously. The late actor is set to appear as Dean Wilson in the upcoming Legally Blonde prequel Elle, which is set to be released via Prime Video in July. The show will follow Elle Woods, whom everyone knows as the unexpected Harvard Law School student from the 2001 movie Legally Blonde, as a high school student. "We learn about the life experiences that shaped her into the iconic young woman we came to know and love in the first Legally Blonde film," the show's official synopsis reads.