Taylor Sheridan's "Yellowstone" franchise is a juggernaut for Paramount, so it's only to be expected that the company's higher-ups would try to replicate its success with other properties. At one point, former executive Chris McCarthy even planned on green-lighting several "Dexter" spin-offs, only for Paramount's merger with Skydance to mess up those plans.

Clyde Phillips, the showrunner on the canceled "Dexter: Original Sin" and other series centering on the eponymous serial killer, opened up about this in an interview with the "Dissecting Dexter" podcast (via PopVerse ):

"'Yellowstone' had a couple of prequels to set it. After 'New Blood,' Showtime picked up Harrison's story, and we wrote 10 scripts of Harrison, which was completely different than where he ended up in 'Resurrecti

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