The former Hannibal “Lecktor” will play another serial killer in Dexter‘s next kill-happy season.
Hard to believe that this year marks the 20th anniversary of charming serial killer Dexter Morgan‘s tenure on our screens. The literary Dexter debuted a little earlier in Jeff Lindsay’s 2004 novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter, but Michael C. Hall pretty much owns the character now. That may be why the prequel series, Original Sin, which starred Patrick Gibson, only lasted a season. It’s just hard to picture anyone else in the role.
Hall’s Dexter is a legit screen boogeyman these, so it’s kind of fitting that he’ll be taking on another iconic villain in the form of legendary thespian Brian Cox, who’ll be playing the latest serial killer to cross our murderous antihero’s field off vision and thus get sorted into the OK To Kill pile.
According to Deadline, who broke the story, Cox will play Don Frampt, the New York Ripper, a retired serial killer whose identity Dexter discovered at the end of Resurrection‘s first season.
Cox is familiar to viewers of… gosh, pretty much everything at one point or another, but Super Troopers and Succession show an impressive range when placed next to each other. In regards to this bit of casting news, it’s fun to note that back in 1986 he was the first actor to play another iconic screen serial killer, Hannibal Lecter. Years prior to Anthony Hopkins and Mads Mikkelsen taking on the role of everyone’s favourite cultured cannibal, Brian Cox played him in Michael Mann’s Manhunter, an adaptation of Thomas Harris’ novel, Red Dragon. Given Dexter, on both page and screen, is heavily indebted to the Lecter stories, there’s a kind of poetry to casting Cox – an acknowledgement of the creative debt.
Michael C. Hall is, of course, returning in the lead role, along with Jack Alcott as his on screen son. And other than that, everything else is under wraps.
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