Cursing the comedy writers of the world to come up with yet more variants on their old “time is a flat circle” jokes, HBO has officially given the green light to a third season of Nic Pizzolatto’s True Detective. As previously reported, Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali will take on the lead role in the crime anthology’s latest outing, playing a Nebraska state police detective by the name of Wayne Hays.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network was holding back on giving the show a new season until it could line up a director to help Pizzolatto—who will continue to write every episode of the new season save one (which is being handled by Deadwood’s David Milch)—keep a third season from turning into the interesting-but-overly-complicated mess that was True Detective season 2. To that end, the network has recruited Green Room director Jeremy Saulnier, who will hopefully inject the show with the same expertly crafted, nightmarish tension that made his 2016 cult horror film such a compellingly upsetting watch.
Re: True Detective (HBO)
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2017 1:53 am
by spacehamster
FVBTVS wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2017 8:34 pm
the interesting-but-overly-complicated mess that was True Detective season 2
That's possibly the most charitably euphemistic description of anything I've heard ever.
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Re: True Detective (HBO)
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 11:00 am
by Necrometer
I hope we find out what happened to simmfoc
oh wait he's just selling used cars - no sex cult, no occult
Re: True Detective (HBO)
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 7:12 pm
by kevin hash
I've had season 2 on dvd ever since it came out....i dont think i can do it.
Re: True Detective (HBO)
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 7:00 pm
by FVBTVS
Re: True Detective (HBO)
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 9:04 pm
by kevin hash
I'll take it.
Re: True Detective (HBO)
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 9:06 pm
by Necrometer
i'll let you guys screen this season for me...
Re: True Detective (HBO)
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2018 6:11 pm
by FVBTVS
Re: True Detective (HBO)
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2019 11:48 am
by FVBTVS
You probably hate being asked this at this stage, but do you plan to do a fourth season? How long do we have to wait this time?
I dream of making a TV show where you have recurring characters and don’t have to reinvent the wheel every time. After one of these I always feel so depleted. But I have to say … I have an idea.
You do?
Yeah, and it’s wild. It’s really, really wild. Where do you even go after this [season]? I just had a lead character who’s 35, 45 and 70 all at the same time and this mystery that has to reach false resolutions and keep going into the future without cheating the audience and all these complicated structural elements. But I have an idea that’s kind of crazy. I think it needs to percolate for a while. I was looking to do another series, maybe a movie, in the meantime, but yeah. I have an idea…