‘Dexter’ Revival Gets November Premiere Date, Trailer

Michael C. Hall — serial killer Dexter Morgan himself — has recognized since Showtime’s serial killer drama “Dexter” ended {that a} return to the character was a chance. As an alternative of being killed off ultimately, he solely faked his dying, leaving his younger son with one other killer (Yvonne Strahovski) and hiding out as a lumberjack.

“It’s come up in numerous kinds,” Corridor mentioned of revivals throughout the present’s Comic-Con@Residence panel on Sunday. “It by no means felt fairly proper by way of the story that was offered or by way of the timing. However, I feel, together with everyone on this panel and together with everyone who’s ever watched the present and is a fan of the present, I actually have additionally puzzled what the hell occurred to this man. And I feel sufficient has time has handed and the storytelling alternatives had been much more attention-grabbing for having extra time between the top and now.”

“Dexter” initially ran as a drama collection on Showtime, premiering in 2006 and wrapping up after eight seasons in 2013. Lower than a decade after its finish, Corridor was able to step again into the character’s footwear, in addition to to collaborate once more with creatives together with authentic showrunner Clyde Phillips and govt producer/director Marcos Siega, each who’re additionally again for the 10-episode revival/continuation collection, “Dexter: New Blood,” which can premiere Nov. 7 at 9 p.m. and which you’ll see a trailer for beneath.

The period of time that has handed in actual life equals the period of time handed for Dexter when the present picks issues again up with him, Phillips previewed.

“One of many issues that Michael insisted on, and he was fully proper, was that this not be ‘Dexter’ Season 9,” he defined. “This not the subsequent second after the lumberjack second. … We choose up with Dexter in one other place, in one other world, really, as distant from Miami as doable.”

That the unique collection ending was disappointing to a big contingent of the viewers was “an enormous half” of desirous to return to the present to supply one other tackle an ending, Corridor admitted.

“I feel the ending was mystifying, at finest, to individuals — confounding, exasperating, irritating, on down the road of unfavourable adjectives,” he mentioned. “And I feel it is a present that’s essential to all of us and the possibility to revisit it and perhaps within the course of redefine the sense of the present’s ending and the sense of the present’s legacy extra broadly was definitely part of our motivation.”

Showtime additionally provided a glimpse at precisely how the present will try this, not solely by the presence of Julia Jones, a brand new solid member for the particular restricted collection, on the panel, but additionally by dissecting a recent teaser for the new series.

Jones performs a lady named Angela, who’s the primary Native American Chief of Police within the upstate New York city through which she resides and lives (and can cross paths with the titular serial killer) — and who the actor known as “difficult.”

“She’s dynamic and she or he has quite a bit to beat,” Jones mentioned. She can also be romantically “collectively” with Dexter, she revealed.

Within the new episodes, Dexter shouldn’t be residing fairly as solitary a life as the unique collection ending could have assumed he could be: Then, the present light out on his lone, unhappy, scruffy face, however now he walks by means of city the place everybody calls out to him in cheerful greeting. In fact, they don’t name him by his earlier identify of Dexter Morgan — he’s now referred to as Jim Lindsay, an alias Phillips mentioned was one thing of an homage to Jeff Lindsay, who wrote the books on which the present was initially primarily based.

“Going again to the way in which the present ended, I feel we see Dexter having made a selection to enter self-imposed exile. And I feel he’s doing very, very lengthy, protracted penance for the individuals who’ve died who had been near him and never supposed victims due to how he’d been residing — how he’d been taking part in quick and free with the code,” Corridor mentioned.

One of many issues Corridor believes was “confounding concerning the [original] ending was that Dexter didn’t say something to us. We had been accustomed to listening to his voiceover; a basic a part of the present was feeling such as you had been in on his secret and implicated because of this. And the truth that he simply regarded on the digicam and didn’t say something was like, ‘Whoa, what are we presupposed to do with that?’ In order that look to the digicam [in the teaser now] is type of like, ‘Hello, I’m again, howdy once more.’”

And naturally that has to imply he can’t abstain from his methods for too lengthy or there could be no motive to return to the character.

“Dexter is exercising the ability of his restraint,” Corridor mentioned of the place we discover Dexter, noting that his option to stay in a city with out loads of temptation is intentional. “His means to not do it’s one thing he fixates on as one thing as a brand new type of energy. It’s the one method I can think about him residing with killing — if, in actual fact, he hasn’t been killing.”

Dexter has been “inspired to imagine he can’t have his cake and eat it too and that if he desires to stay a life and proceed to do that very quiet, very unacknowledged penance for what he’s finished, he’s not going to have the ability to go round killing individuals,” Corridor continued. “If he’s going round killing individuals, he’s going to wrestle to have a life … although he does preserve a fantasy that he’s in a position to do each.”

Given that he’s carrying a leather-based knife wrap round city, that fantasy is definitely about to grow to be a actuality.

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