Dexter: Resurrection Is Coming: Cast List, Plot, and Release Date

America’s favorite fictional serial killer is unstoppable, especially with “Dexter: Resurrection” in the works. The next limited series is the fourth in Showtime’s TV show franchise and is based on Jeff Lindsay’s novels about a murderer with a moral code.

Movie Release Date

Dexter: Resurrection will debut on Paramount+ on Friday, July 11, 2025. It will begin with a double-bill premiere before switching to a once-weekly release strategy.

Cast

Leon Prater, a multibillionaire venture capitalist with some sinister secrets, will be portrayed by Peter Dinklage, who is best known for his role as Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones. His head of security, Charley (played by Uma Thurman, a former Special Ops officer), is protecting him. Steve Schirripa, David Dastmalchian, Krysten Ritter, and Neil Patrick Harris have also appeared as guests on the show. According to Deadline, it has also been revealed that Jimmy Smits and John Lithgow will rejoin the franchise.

• Michael C. Hall as Deter Morgan
• James Remar as Harry Morgan
• David Zayas as Detective Batista
• Jack Alcott as Harrison Morgan
• Peter Dinklage as Leon Prater
• Uma Thurman as Charley
• Krysten Ritter as Mia
• Neil Patrick Harris as Lowell
• David Dastmalchian as Gareth
• Steve Schirripa as Vinny
• John Lithgow as Arthur Mitchell
• Jimmy Smits as Miguel Prado

Longtime writer Scott Reynolds is joining Phillips, who is returning to showrun the series behind the scenes. Resurrection’s directors include Marcos Siega, who directed/executive produced New Blood and directed parts of the original series.

Plot Details

Following the revelation that Dexter survived his near-fatal shooting in New Blood, which opens a brand-new chapter in the prequel series Original Sin, Dexter: Resurrection begins.

The series “takes place weeks after Dexter Morgan takes a bullet to the chest from his own son [in New Blood], as he awakens from a coma to find Harrison gone without a trace,” stated the official synopsis provided by Showtime/Paramount+.

It goes on: “Dexter decides to go to New York City in order to find his son and make amends after realizing the burden he caused him. But it won’t be simple to find closure.

“Dexter realizes his history is quickly catching up with him when Angel Batista from Miami Metro shows up with questions. Father and son soon discover that they are deeper than they ever thought they would be and that the only way out is to work together as they negotiate their own darkness in the city that never sleeps.

Longtime viewers will recall that Dexter begged his son Harrison to murder him in the New Blood finale of 2022 because he thinks that his violent acts will only continue as long as he is alive.

However, the opening sequence of Original Sin, which frames the prequel as memories flying through the Dexter’s head while he receives urgent medical care, shows that the supposedly deadly shot to the chest turns out to be a near-miss.