Christian Slater is Dexter's new daddy in the Young Dexter show
Patrick Gibson and Molly Brown will star with Christian Slater in serial killer prequel series Dexter: Original Sin
Because none of us got together and mustered the moral fortitude to say no to it, now we have to live with this: Christian Slater has just been cast in the upcoming prequel series Dexter: Original Sin, which, if it’s okay with y’all, we’re just going to go ahead and start referring to as Young Dexter for the rest of this article. That cool? We figured that’d be cool.
Anyways, Slater will star in Young Dexter as Harry Morgan, the character previously played by James Remar, in persistent flashback form, in the original Showtime series. (Henceforth known as Old Dexter, as distinguished from its 2021 sequel series, New Blood/Very Old Dexter.) As the adopted father of Young Dexter, Harry attempts to guide the budding serial killer toward only killing the right kind of people, i.e., criminals who have otherwise escaped justice, and who are ideally played by a big enough guest star to give the murders some oomph near a given season’s climax.
Slater joins the cast alongside Shadow & Bone co-star Patrick Gibson, who’ll be playing Young Dexter himself. (Although, since Gibson is 29, i.e., just six years younger than Michael C. Hall was when he started playing an adult Dexter in 2006, that titular adjective should be understood to be largely relative.) Molly Brown rounds out the show’s central trio, playing the younger version of Deb Morgan, played by Jennifer Carpenter in the original series. Clyde Philips, who created the original series and New Blood, and who showrun the seasons of the old show that people mostly didn’t hate, will serve as the showrunner for the new series. (No word yet on when the show will come out, although it’ll likely split custody between Showtime and Paramount+ when it does.)
Slater, for his part, has been working steadily, mostly in TV, since his celebrated, career-kickstarting role in Mr. Robot ended in 2019. He most recently starred in The Spiderwick Chronicles, and made an appearance, as pretty much everyone in Hollywood was apparently socially obligated to, in Jerry Seinfeld’s recent Pop-Tart movie Unfrosted.
[via THR]