Why did Dexter come back from the dead for the origins?

The creator and showrunner, Clyde Phillips, explains the tarabiscotated circumstances that led to the creation of the prequel and the return to the life of the serial killer, after New Blood.

Dexter: The origins approach to its conclusion on Canal +. More episodes to finish understanding the genesis of the most famous serial killer on the small screen.

If the story takes place mainly in 1991, 15 years before the original series, the first episode started with a huge twist in the present: after being fatally shot down by his son Harrison (Jack Alcott) in the final of Dexter: New Blood (in 2022), Dexter (Michael C. Hall) finally survived his injuries …

Yes, this is a surprise because at the time, there was no doubt about the fate of Dexter. While his son went by car, Dexter was left for dead, emptying his blood in the snow, alone in the forest. “”Let me die so that my son can live“He said in a tragic conclusion. Except that episode 1 of the prequel broadcast at the moment confirms to us that production has saved his life. So that he could narrate his youth in Dexter: The origins. But not only.

The showrunner Clyde Phillipsat the controls of the saga for a long time, reveals in EW that the sociopath was well supposed to die at the end of New Blood. This is what had been written. The author assures that he “did not know“that he was going to revive Dexterboth as a character and as a franchise, after New Blood. “”He dies at the end! I wrote the last episode of New Blood And he died at the end of this series. And then it became the most watched episode in the story of Showtime.. “

A massive audience that has changed everything and even had the power to resuscitate Dexter. The management of the media group belonging to Paramount said that it was absolutely necessary to redo the Dexter After such a box. So much so that Showtime A “immediately“Given the green light to another series and Phillips got back to work without delay to develop a suite. Except that Paramount then met with huge success with Yellowstone And especially its prequal spin-offs, in the past of the Dutton family. So the studio asked the creator to also lay a prequel to Dexter ::

“”We wrote the 10 episodes of the New Blood suite, then Chris McCarthy (from MTV Entertainment and Paramount) arrived and said to me: ‘I do not give in the aftermath, I am in the prequal!’ Because he had done the prequal of Yellowstone, which were called 1883 and 1923. So Chris asked me to invent a prequel … in two weeks “.

Clyde Phillips says the production calendar was a little crazy. The shooting of Dexter: The origins and its diffusion has been accelerated. “I’m still editing the latest episodes while it goes on TV …”

Michael C. Hallhe returned to film the intro scene of the first episode, acting the survival of his character. And he will come back well in the shoes of the killer, in the suite written by Philips. The future series Dexter: Resurrectionwhich takes place today, has already started its shooting and will be broadcast this summer! “”They start to call it all the detection …“Amuses Phillips, who plays the game while it lasts. Dexter is no longer dead. Long -lived Dexter.