‘True Detective’ Season 3 May Not Happen After All Writer Nic Pizzolatto made a killing on HBO with the first season of True Detective. Starring Matthew McConaughey (who was in the midst of the McConaissance and on the verge of his first Oscar) and Woody Harrelson, the pseudo-supernatural detective drama became a sensation, prompting HBO to make another round of the anthology series with a new cast, setting, and story. Season 2 didn’t stick the landing as the network and fans hoped, but we haven’t heard the last of Pizzolatto. While the future of True Detective is still unclear, THR reports that sources within HBO are suggesting it’s more likely viewers will see an entirely new series from the writer. Cary Fukunaga, who emerged into the spotlight more with his brilliant direction of Season 1, found new life helming Beasts of No Nation and perhaps now a miniseries event for HBO centered around Stanley Kubrick’s lostNapoleon project. It seems like Pizzolatto is doing the same. He inked a two-year overall deal with HBO last fall that would see him churning out new content through 2018. At the time, reports stated a number of new projects were being considered, though anything more specific is unclear. Image via HBO True Detective Season 2 featured Colin Farrell,Rachel McAdams, Vince Vaughn, and Taylor Kitschas four leads instead of two. HBO’s former programming president, Michael Lombardo, took the blame earlier this year for thelackluster run, stating: Well, you know what? I set him up. To deliver, in a very short time frame, something that became very challenging to deliver. That’s not what that show is. He had to reinvent the wheel, so to speak. Find his muse. And so I think that’s what I learned from it. Don’t do that anymore. Pizzolatto is certainly a talent, and the network seems committed to figure out some way to utilize his skills. During the interim, he worked on the screenplay for Antoine Fuqua’s remake of The Magnificent Seven, starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Matt Bomer, and Vincent D’Onofrio. That film is scheduled for release on September 23rd, and it would seem like a smart idea for HBO to capitalize on Pizzolatto’s involvement by announcing some sort of new project around then.
More likely, sources say, is a different series from creator Nic Pizzolatto, who signed an exclusive deal with HBO last fall.
Does it involve skybar, cock grabbing, pharmacy school, broken windows, sugar daddies, expulsion, lawsuits, a guy nobody likes, and an Internet message board?
There were a couple good episodes, and after the penultimate sode I had my hopes set really high. The season finale was astronomically terrible, no way around that.
Yeah, but part of what made S1 so fucking good was the blending of local antiquated religions and how they meld with ancient cult shit and what not. The fact it being in southern Louisiana and was able to be hidden in plain sight with corruption to the highest levels and so on and so forth. Hard to replicate that in any other setting.
I might be alone, but, after the second season of True Detective, I don't want MM to touch the series again. Rust is one of my favorite characters in the history of television, and I am now terrified anything more would ruin his character. Leave him in his perfection.
You need to cast intense actors to star in that series. Vince Vaughn, who has starred in such intense driven classics as Dodgeball, Wedding Crashers, The Break-Up, Old School, and most recently Unfinished Business, was not quite believable in the roll of a crooked businessman in suburban California. A handful of (intense) actors who could easily revitalize True Detective? Ben Mendensoln, Viggo Mortensen, Forest Whitaker, Jon Hamm, Joaquin Phoenix, Idris Elba
Was thinking about it the other day and, bad as Season 2 was, I think Season 1 was pretty f'n great and the people who criticize it just do so because they think it'll make them look cool. Will give this a chance.
interesting that fukunaga is involved again. seemed like a lot of people attributed some of the season 2 isues to him not being involved.
I'm watching this based on your recommendation. I've seen this on my guide a few times but the premise/synopsis looked so ridiculous that I didn't give it a serious look. halfway through it, and I am definitely digging it.
Season 1 ending got criticism because people felt entitled to some sort of big payoff in the form of a twist or reveal when in actuality it was more about the two guys getting closure.
Because a bunch of internet detectives falsely prescribed meaning to every mundane shot that they could. These same people do the same thing with every awesome show.