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 , which, if it’s okay with y’all, we’re just going to go ahead and start referring to as for the rest of this article. That cool? We figured that’d be cool. Anyways, Slater will star in as Harry Morgan, the character previously played by James Remar, in persistent flashback form, in the original Showtime series.
(Henceforth known as , as distinguished from its 2021 sequel series, .) As the adopted father of , 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 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 , 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 wor.
