Dexter’s revival season could be a one-season deal.
The beloved sequence is about to return later this yr with Dexter: New Blood, which picks up 10 years after the controversial finale.
Gary Levine, the community’s president of leisure has teased that the revival will deliver the franchise to an in depth.
“Dexter is a jewel within the crown of Showtime and we didn’t do it justice ultimately. That has all the time been a burr beneath my saddle,” Levine mentioned throughout the community’s TCA panel, in accordance with Deadline.
“We’ve all the time needed to see if there was a option to do it proper and it took a very long time to determine what that was. It took a very long time for Michael [C. Hall] to be keen to revisit the function. We’re thrilled to get [Clive] Phillips again. We lastly acquired to a spot that I simply can’t wait to point out the world.”
He added, “We name it a restricted sequence however the guidelines say it will probably’t be a restricted sequence if it’s coming from one thing that was on the air for a very long time. So we name it a particular occasion right here. For me, it’s a revisiting of Dexter and a correct finale for an excellent season.”
Certainly, the ultimate season did finish with a whimper, however may this new season spin off into one thing else?
“You’re means forward of me,” he mentioned when Deadline questioned about persevering with the franchise.
“I’m attempting to complete producing the particular occasion sequence and the expectations are so excessive for it. The sequence is so particular to our community and that’s my focus proper now. Let’s make it nice and the long run will care for itself.”
It was additionally revealed throughout the TCA panel that Jennifer Carpenter can be again within the sequence common function of Deborah Morgan, however she can be her brother’s Darkish Passenger throughout this iteration.
“I like the idea of the Darkish Passenger and being invited into Dexter’s psyche,” Carpenter defined at TCA.
“I really feel like generally the Darkish Passenger and the passenger is nearly immediately behind the wheel, and it was a chance to not be an angel or satan on his shoulder, however to jerk the wheel left or proper towards his will,” the returning star continued.
“And when to control him, to navigate him, to abuse him, to save lots of him. I felt prefer it was one thing fully totally different than some form of ghost entity.”
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