The next Dexter spinoff is filling in its ranks with familiar faces.
David Zayas, James Remar and Jack Alcott will all be joining Michael C. Hall in Dexter: Resurrection, the next spinoff in the Paramount+ with Showtime franchise that will be releasing this summer.
Dexter: Resurrection will star Michael C. Hall, who originated the titular serial killer character of Dexter Morgan in the iconic Showtime series.
Zayas played Detective Angel Batista, friend and coworker to Dexter, and James Remar played his deceased father Harry Morgan in the original series that ran for eight seasons and ended in 2013. Alcott then played Dexter’s son, Harrison Morgan, in the 2021 Dexter revival series, Dexter: New Blood.
The currently airing prequel series, Dexter: Original Sin, resurrected Hall as Dexter in the season opener. It was known that Hall would narrate Original Sin, but not until the series premiered in December did the Dexter audience understand how everything would connect.
After killing Hall’s character in New Blood back in 2022, Clyde Phillips figured out how to bring him back with Original Sin. Before flashing back to follow a young Dexter (played by Patrick Gibson), the prequel series opened up in present-day immediately following the events of New Blood. Dexter — who was shot, with his consent, by son Harrison (Alcott) in a bid to stop the killer cycle in their bloodline — is then brought back to life by doctors.
Phillips, who serves as showrunner on Original Sin and is also showrunner on Resurrection, previously explained to The Hollywood Reporter that he only had Hall for one year with New Blood, which is why he gave him the tragic ending at the time. But when Hall later called him and asked if he would be open to revisiting, he said he had to find a way to revive his star.
“As we will learn at the beginning of Resurrection, if Dexter had been shot on a summer’s day, he would have died. But he was shot in zero-degree temperature in the snow. He didn’t bleed out and they were able to save him. That’s how we were able to resurrect him,” Phillips explained to THR.
He added of how all the shows connect, “You could almost consider Resurrection the next season of New Blood.”
Original Sin, meanwhile, introduces the younger versions of Batista and Harry Morgan, who are played by James Martinez and Christian Slater, respectively. The prequel is filled with Easter eggs from the original series, which THR is tracking here.
Production for Dexter: Resurrection begins this month. The series will premiere summer 2025.
Resurrection executive producers are Phillips and Hall along with Scott Reynolds, Tony Hernandez and Lilly Burns, with Marcos Siega as producing director. The series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.
Zayas is repped by ATA Management, Buchwald, Schreck Rose Dapello Adams; Alcott is repped by Gersh Agency, Authentic Talent and Literary Management, Viewpoint, Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher; and Remar is repped by Gersh Agency and Lighthouse Entertainment.
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