Michael C. Hall Calls DEXTER: RESURRECTION a "New Beginning," and Its Creator Confirms "We Plan to Do This for Years"
Michael C. Hall is returning to the role of Dexter in the upcoming sequel series Dexter: Resurrection. The original series ran for eight seasons on Showtime, and ended with what fans thought was the serial killer’s demise. But he returned in the one-off limited series Dexter: New Blood, where he again seemed to have died in the finale, and he voiced the consciousness of his younger self as the narrator in Dexter: Original Sin.
And now, against all odds, Dexter is back again, and so is Hall, and this time, he and the show’s creator are hoping to tell another multi-series story. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Hall and Clyde Phillips, Dexter’s original showrunner and New Blood’s creator, sat down to discuss what we can expect from the series, and what they hope for it in the future.
Resurrection takes place a few weeks after New Blood and is framed by the intense dynamic between father and son. Dexter chases a missing Harrison (Jack Alcott) to New York City, where David Zayas’s Captain Angel Batista is hot on their trail from way down in Miami.
Zayas is far from the only original cast member returning: “John Lithgow and Jimmy Smits will be in for a minute,” Phillips says, referring to their beloved respective roles of the Trinity Killer and ADA Miguel Prado.
Dexter’s late adoptive father, Harry, who instilled the code of killing in his son, will return in ghost form, again portrayed by James Remar. Then there’s the matter of Harrison—safe to say, he’ll play a prominent role.
New cast members Neil Patrick Harris, Krysten Ritter, Eric Stonestreet, and more will appear in guest roles, while new adversaries include Emmy winner Peter Dinklage as a billionaire venture capitalist with a dark side and Oscar nominee Uma Thurman as his mysterious head of security.
In the interview, both Hall and Phillips sound energized by what they call at various points a “second chance” and a “new beginning.” They’re all over New York, “a place where you can be lost and found,” as Phillips puts it. “Dexter for a while was lost, and now he’s found himself again.”
“This show can end up being an Easter egg hunt for the OG fans, but we’re also making it a fresh new show. If people haven’t seen the show before, they can come in and watch a fully formed television series,” Phillips says.
Do Hall and Phillips view Resurrection as a limited, one-off series? They respond defiantly. “We’ve got the strongest franchise in Showtime’s history, and we plan to do this for years,” Phillips says. Hall chimes in: “Years with an s. The thinking is not to come back for a sort of self-contained one-off again, but leave it open to further exploration. The intention, and hope, is that the story will continue beyond this.”
Hell, even if that weren’t the case, Dexter Morgan is a hard guy to keep down. “He’s a much more human, flesh-and-blood version of that horror trope of someone who just refuses to go down,” Hall says.
Dexter: Resurrection is set to kick off this June, which means we should be seeing a trailer very soon.