"Marcos and I were sitting there going, 'Who are we going to get to do this little opening bit,'" Williamson tells Entertainment Weekly. "And we asked [Roerig and Davis], they were in Atlanta, and they came up to do it.

The main characters in Kevin Williamson's Netflix series are a multigenerational cast of adults whose lives are glossier and grittier than what audiences remember from the 'Dawson’s' gang.

Williamson, an architect of the Scream franchise who also created the CW's The Vampire Diaries and Fox's The Following, assembled an impressive lineup of familiar faces and rising talent for the eight-episode series, his first since 2018's Tell Me a Story.