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American screenwriter, director, and producer (born 1965)

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Kevin Meade Williamson is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. He is known for writing the screenplay for the slasher film Scream (1996) - which launched the Scream franchise - along with those for Scream 2 (1997) and Scream 4 (2011), and writing and directing Scream 7 (2026).

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Kevin Williamson
said · Jul 1, 2020
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We start from scratch, every generation. History does not bend inevitably toward justice, or freedom, or decency, or even stability.

"The End of (Whig) History" (1 July 2020), National Review

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Kevin Williamson
said · May 2020
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When things go sideways in this unhappy world, nobody cries out in the dead of night: “For the love of God, somebody call the Dutch!

"Governance Envy" (May 2020), National Review

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Kevin Williamson
said · Jul 27, 2019
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[M]onkeys in India are a gigantic pain in the ass and a genuine menace, too: Every now and then, they kill somebody, or maim somebody pretty good.

"How Twitter radicals are controlling corporate America" (27 July 2019), The New York Post

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Saturn Award for Best Writing

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Kevin Meade Williamson is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. He is known for writing the screenplay for the slasher film Scream (1996) - which launched the Scream franchise - along with those for Scream 2 (1997) and Scream 4 (2011), and writing and directing Scream 7 (2026). He is also known for creating the WB teen drama series Dawson's Creek (1998-2003), the CW supernatural drama series The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017), the Fox crime thriller series The Following (2013-2015) and the CBS All Access thriller series Tell Me a Story (2018-2020).

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Born 1965 · age 61
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