James Van Der Beek had a plan for a Dawson's Creek reboot before his untimely death. Dawson's Creek creator Kevin Williamson opened up to Esquire about what the late actor, who died at age 48 after battling stage 3 colorectal cancer, envisioned for the show's revival. "I've always been resistant to Dawson's Creek. I always felt like, 'Well, we did that. We finished it.' In the last episode, we jumped five years," Williamson, 60, said, explaining that he didn't feel like the show needed a reboot. "We went to the future. The last episode of that show was the remake.