Variety reports that Showtime has ordered a pilot from writer James Manos for a TV series based on Jeff Lindsay’s novel DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER. The series would follow the exploits of a Miami Police Department forensics expert who also happens to be a serial killer. There’s a series you’d never find on CBS.
Everyone’s nightmare come true.
What is it with serial killers? Why are people attracted to them? I don’t get it.
I remember reading something by a guy who’d spent some considerable length of time interviewing John Wayne Gacy, and he said that the thing he remembered about Gacy was what a colossal, crashing bore he was, only interested in talking endlessly about himself.
Someone get Lee Horsely on the line! He’d be perfect!
DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER…a Quinn Martin Production. Starring Mark Shera. Guest starring Burr DeBenning, Andrew Duggan, Sondra Locke, Mariette Hartley. Special Guest Star Martin Sheen as “Crazy Eddie.” Tonight’s Episode: DREAM A DEATH FOR ME.
I just finished reading the sequel, DEARLY DEVOTED DEXTER, and enjoyed it.
It’s much better than the ‘serial-killer as hero’ novel HANNIBAL, by Thomas Harris, or the ‘serial-killer as hero’ novel AMERICAN PSYCHO by Bret Easton Ellis, but not nearly as well done as the ‘serial-killer as hero’ novel BLACKBURN by Bradley Denton, or the ‘serial-killer as hero’ novel MY IDEA OF FUN by Will Self, or the ‘serial-killer as hero’ novel THE WASP FACTORY by Iain Banks.
So it makes perfect sense that this rapidly expanding sub-genre would eventually reach the attention of the cable TV execs, who are paid to have their fingers firmly on the pulse of anything that sounds like something.
I think the mistake, however, is going for the sit-com format and taping in front of a studio audience.
This is NOT good news for me…I am in the midst of writing a screenplay on spec with the same sort of plot. I guess I can rewrite it to skew more towards another character and her past rather than the ME and his killing ways. Owww…what a blow!
Darkly Dreaming Dexter: the review
Dexter Morgan, the hero and narrator of Jeff Lindsay’s novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter, is a guy with a problem: while he doesn’t exactly know what’s “right” and what’s “wrong,” he’s a serial killer who’s known from a young age both…
Darkly Dreaming Dexter: the review
Dexter Morgan, the hero and narrator of Jeff Lindsay’s novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter, is a guy with a problem: while he doesn’t exactly know what’s “right” and what’s “wrong,” he’s a serial killer who’s known from a young age both…
A note for the author – have just fnished both your books and normally wouldn’t have considered reading such gruesome accounts of murders but I have to admit to now being a complete & utter devoted (excuse the pun)fan of Dexter – such clever humour – please tell me you will be writing a third??? Cheers, Jan from the Gold Coast in Australia