Dexter’s world was about to become bigger, but now it seems that Paramount+ has slammed the brakes. After renewing the prequel series Dexter: Sin Original For a second season at the beginning of this year, Streamer abruptly reversed the course and canceled the show.
Creator of the series Clyde Phillips He is speaking and is not holding for his frustration for how things went.
On Dexter’s podcast of dissection, Phillips explained how badly the decision has been managed.
“It was a difficult phone call that I received that night. They had already collected the show, and I had informed all the writers and informed all the actors, and then they did not collect it. It was not well managed and I’m not happy with it.”
The cancellation bites are even more considering how much planning had already gone to build the Dexter verse.
Original sin followed a young Dexter Morgan, played by Patrick GibsonAnd he was preparing the foundations for an enlarged universe of stories. Phillips revealed that Paramount’s merger with Skydance played an important role in shaking these plans.
According to Phillips, former boss paramount Chris McCarthy He was pushing to grow the franchise in the same way Taylor Sheridan has expanded Yellowstone.
“He wanted me to be his new Taylor Sheridan. We planned a couple of years, not looking forward to presenting new characters.”
That roadmap included potential prequels focused on the younger versions of James Doakes (played by Erik King) and Captain Matthews (Geoff Pierson), as well as two other main projects in which Phillips had already sunk seriously.
One was a prequel called Trinitycentered on the Serial Killer Reflicit made famous by John Lithgow in the original Dexter. Phillips shared that he and a writers’ room completed 10 scripts for the spin -off, together with 10 other scripts for a series on Dexter Harrison’s son.
That show, observed Phillips, would have gone in a “completely different direction from where it finished ResurrectionBecause Dexter was not involved. “
Unfortunately, those scripts may never see the light of the day. Phillips said he spent a year “by writing all these shows” and “creating the [Dexter]-Iverse ”, only for the paramount fusion to derail everything.
When asked if there are progress on Trinity, Phillips has been frank. He is still sitting on the “Burner. I don’t think honestly [Paramount is] I’m going to do it. I just think they are interested Resurrection. “
And this is where things are. According to reports, Paramount+ is opening a writers’ room for a second season of Dexter: ResurrectionBut other spin -offs are in limbo. Phillips is skeptical that Trinity He has a blow.
“If they erase original sin, which is an incorporated success, as they will collect Trinity? If they do, I would be happy, but I don’t see them doing.”
For fans of DexterIt is a difficult pill to swallow. What was once preparing to be an exciting shared universe was interrupted, leaving alone Resurrection Go on.
By Joey Gour
Source: Geek Tyrant
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