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TV: “Dexter” Showrunner Talks Last Night’s Season Finale, The Next Two Years And More!
Spoilers Ahead!!
I haven’t seen much “Dexter” since Season 4 wrapped up with Rita taking an eternal bath. I didn’t stop watching it intentionally, it’s just one of those things that got away from me. From what I’d been hearing, I was kind of glad to be taking the year or two off since it seemed that the show had jumped the shark. In fact, I think he show jumped the shark the moment it was born. It’s an inherently ridiculous concept and I’m amazed at the mileage they’ve gotten out of it. That being said, the first four seasons were fun and engaging but the sense that I’d gotten was that Seasons 5 and 6 failed to really bring it.
But the reveal of last night’s finale has me thinking the show could be escalating to a new level of pulpy trashiness – one that I could get into.
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter showrunner Scott Buck recaps the events of the series finale and spills some beans about the show’s future. But they’re spoiler beans so beware! Hit the jump to check out a few quotes! Was it always the plan to have Deb find out this season? “Yes, from the beginning of the season, it’s not like years previous we were planning on revealing it at the end of Season 6. We knew going into this season that that it was time to finally pay that off. That that would be our big final moment.”
How will Deb handle the news professionally? She’s determined as lieutenant at Miami Metro — especially with LaGuerta to answer to — to catching the DDK. “That’s part of the drama of next season. Her career means a lot to her, her profession of being a good detective and solving crimes and serving justice is extremely important to her. Now she’s seen her brother, who she potentially feels like she’s in love with, kill the big killer of the season. How she is going to handle that is all fodder for next season. It’s not something I can answer in a sentence because it’s what we’ll be dealing with next season.”
Do you have an end game for the series? Do you know what a series finale will look like? “Beginning now we will be, yes. There’s a number of ways the series can end. But now that we know that most likely the series will be ending in two years we can start to work toward that specifically. There’s a number of different writers and producers on the show and over the years we’ve all sort of imagined how the show will end and now it will eventually be time to start comparing notes and seeing what the best direction is to take this show before we decide on what our final episode will be.”
Hit up THR to check out the rest of the interview!
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’28 Years Later’ – Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Join Long Awaited Sequel
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland (Annihilation, Men), the director and writer behind 2002’s hit horror film 28 Days Later, are reteaming for the long-awaited sequel, 28 Years Later. THR reports that the sequel has cast Jodie Comer (Alone in the Dark, “Killing Eve”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter), and Ralph Fiennes (The Menu).
The plan is for Garland to write 28 Years Later and Boyle to direct, with Garland also planning on writing at least one more sequel to the franchise – director Nia DaCosta is currently in talks to helm the second installment.
No word on plot details as of this time, or who Comer, Taylor-Johnson, and Fiennes may play.
28 Days Later received a follow up in 2007 with 28 Weeks Later, which was executive produced by Boyle and Garland but directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Now, the pair hope to launch a new trilogy with 28 Years Later. The plan is for Garland to write all three entries, with Boyle helming the first installment.
Boyle and Garland will also produce alongside original producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice, the former head of Fox Searchlight Pictures, the division of one-time studio Twentieth Century Fox that originally backed the British-made movie and its sequel.
The original film starred Cillian Murphy “as a man who wakes up from a coma after a bicycle accident to find England now a desolate, post-apocalyptic collapse, thanks to a virus that turned its victims into raging killers. The man then navigates the landscape, meeting a survivor played by Naomie Harris and a maniacal army major, played by Christopher Eccleston.”
Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) is on board as executive producer, though the actor isn’t set to appear in the film…yet.
Talks of a third installment in the franchise have been coming and going for the last several years now – at one point, it was going to be titled 28 Months Later – but it looks like this one is finally getting off the ground here in 2024 thanks to this casting news. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
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