It\u2019s been largely eclipsed\u2014both by his own work, and that of Anthony Hopkins\u2014but veteran actor Brian Cox was first introduced to a whole lot of moviegoers as cinema\u2019s most notorious serial killer: Playing a slightly more brutish take on Dr. Hannibal Lecter in Michael Mann\u2019s 1986 thriller Manhunter. Now, he\u2019s set to get back to those grisly roots, having just signed on to be the latest big-name actor to spend a season matching wits with serial-killer-who-serial-kills-serial-killers Dexter Morgan.<\/p>\n
This is per\u00a0Variety<\/a>, which reports that Cox has signed on for the upcoming second season of revival series\u00a0Dexter: Resurrection<\/a>, where he\u2019ll take on the role of semi-retired mass murderer Dom Framt, a.k.a. The New York Ripper. The character was mentioned a few times in the show\u2019s first season, as a formerly active serial killer who now kills time instead of people by sending taunting messages to his surviving victims. The character\u2019s real name was identified at the climax of the season, when Dexter Morgan successfully defeated Peter Dinklage\u2019s billionaire murder fanboy and let his file on the Ripper slip into the hands of the NYPD. Given that basically every season of Dexter\u00a0since the third one has involved Michael C. Hall eventually going up against whoever the most famous person on the show\u2019s current guest star roster is, we\u2019re assuming a showdown between the Bay Harbor Butcher and the New York Ripper is now imminent.<\/p>\n Cox has been busy in the years since he wrapped up his star-reigniting run on HBO\u2019s\u00a0Succession; he\u2019s done a number of prominent voice roles, appeared in last year\u2019s horror comedy\u00a0The Parenting<\/a>, and, of course, starred in a YouTube video where he walked around a greenscreen volcano while attempting to explain the plot of\u00a0Tekken\u00a0to people without sounding completely contemptuous of it<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dexter: Resurrection\u00a0was renewed for a second season on Paramount+ back in October 2025, just a month after the show\u2019s first season finished airing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been largely eclipsed\u2014both by his own work, and that of Anthony Hopkins\u2014but veteran actor Brian Cox was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-372783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}