For my HBO people! We all know True Detective is better than anything else in the entire world. This comes to me as a surprise though, withHBO announcing Tuesday that Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn will serve as the leads in the second season of the network’s hit drama True Detective.
The eight-episode hour-long drama is set to begin production later this fall in California.
Here is a press release from HBO:
Logline: Three police officers and a career criminal must navigate a web of conspiracy in the aftermath of a murder.
The series is created and written by Nic Pizzolatto. Justin Lin will direct the first two episodes.
Cast: Colin Farrell as Ray Velcoro, a compromised detective whose allegiances are torn between his masters in a corrupt police department and the mobster who owns him.
Vince Vaughn as Frank Semyon, a career criminal in danger of losing his empire when his move into legitimate enterprise is upended by the murder of a business partner.
Additional casting will be announced as it is confirmed.
HBO has confirmed two of the four leads in the second season of True Detective. The eight-episode season will revolve around three police officers, one of whom will be played by Vince Vaughn, working with a criminal (Colin Farrell) as they untangle a conspiracy in the wake of a murder.
Vaughn will play Frank Semyon, a life-long criminal attempting to shift into honest work when the murder of a business partner threatens his newfound livelihood. Farrell, who confirmed his casting on the show over the weekend, is set to appear as Ray Velcoro, a detective caught in the middle of dealing with both corrupt police and the mob. The rest of the cast has yet to be announced.
Production will begin on the season, which creator Nic Pizzolatto wrote, later this fall in California. Justin Lin will direct the season’s first two episodes.
Official word from HBO on the second season of True Detective comes after weeks of a swiftly churning rumor mill: Elisabeth Moss — fresh off her role as a small-town cop in Top of the Lake — was said to be closing in on the role of Ani Bezzerides, a tough Monterey sheriff struggling with booze and gambling; and Friday Night Lights‘ Taylor Kitsch was allegedly in the running to play the third detective on the case, Paul Woodrugh, a military vet.
Though most reports had stated the show only had three leads, series creator Nic Pizzolatto saw his antagonist as a fourth and wrote Semyon, a businessman with a brutish past trying to build a high-speed rail through California, with Vince Vaughn in mind. Michelle Forbes, who appeared in the first season of The Killings, was also reportedly in talks to assume the other female lead, either as Semyon’s wife, or Velcoro’s ex-wife, a victim of sexual assault.
While Pizzolatto is still putting the finishing touches on his s
cripts for the second season, this time around True Detective will reportedly center on the heinous murder of Ben Caspar, a corrupt city manager of a fictional California town. The killing comes in as the state works towards a massive transportation deal — likely Semyon’s high-speed rail connecting North and South California — and the three detectives from various cities and branches are tasked with solving the case.
Though the proceedings sound potentially gruesome, Variety reported that HBO programming president Michael Lombardo told a crowd at the Guardian International Television Festival in Edinburgh that Season Two “won’t be quite as dark as the first.” Not that things won’t get hairy, Lombardo insisted: “Nic explores the darkness in people’s souls… It’s not as dark, but it’s not a light ride. Nic likes looking into the crevices of the soul.”
via Rolling Stone