HBO officially confirms True Detective: Night Country
The HBO anthology series' fourth season will star Jodie Foster opposite Kali Reis
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Time truly is a flat circle, baby, because True Detective is back. HBO has officially ordered a fourth installment of the acclaimed drama series, titled True Detective: Night Country.
Actor and world champion boxer, Kali Reis, is set to star alongside Jodie Foster, whose role was announced in May. Reis made her acting debut in sex trafficking revenge thriller, Catch The Fair One. She will also appear in the upcoming film, Black Flies, opposite Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan. Reis is a motivational speaker and supporter of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls movement.
This season of True Detective promises to be as bleak and introspective as its predecessors. (Not that we expected anything different.) HBO’s synopsis reads:
When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers (Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Reis) will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.
HBO has also announced that the season will be filmed in bright and sunny Iceland. Time to break out the hot cocoa!
Issa López (Tigers Are Not Afraid) will serve as showrunner, writer, director, and executive producer. This will be the first season of the show not run by original creator, Nic Pizzolatto, although he will be staying on as an executive producer. López and Pizzolatto will be joined as executive producers by Jodie Foster, Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, Alan Page Arriaga, Anonymous Content, Mari Jo Winkler, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, and Cary Joji Fukunaga.
The network has yet to announce a premiere date for True Detective: Night Country, but Francesca Orsi (EVP, HBO Programming) has said, “We are tremendously excited to return to the True Detective franchise.” So are we!
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Hm, this summer might be a good time to finally rewatch the first season. López and Pizzolatto will be joined as executive producers by Jodie Foster, Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, Alan Page Arriaga, Anonymous Content, Mari Jo Winkler, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, and Cary Joji Fukunaga.And could there BE any more EPs? Seems ridiculous to have that many. Does having that many even add value, or are they just collecting a check and a credit basically?
There could be one less
It’s that second thing.
Yea.. why even repeat their names here? These are mostly contractual obligations to receive a piece of profit for involvement in previous seasons. Harrelson and McConaughey will have zero creative input to the new season.
Harrelson and McConaughey will have zero creative input to the new season
No, but I can’t imagine there even being a new season were it not for the two of them. Even after the stinker season two, season one was still held in such high regard they did a third. And now a fourth. So to me, yeah, they should get credit as I can’t imagine any other two doing so well in the roles.
S3 is damn near as good as S1. Mahershala Ali is terrific, as usual, but Stephen Dorff gives a career best performance. And while S2 is a narrative mess, Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams and Vince Vaughn all turn in good performances, imo.
I have tried to think of two other actors that would have been good in season one but can’t think of a good fit. I am also sure I would have never picked either of them knowing what the show was about. Good thing I am not a casting director.
Harrelson and McConaughey will have zero creative input to the new season. true but they probably bring the BEST pot to the production meetings LOL
My question is why is there a company name (Anonymous Content) amongst the individuals? For a minute I thought it was a placeholder or someone with a really odd stage name.
Anyone else tired of the “tortured detective grappling with his past” trope? Maybe it’s just me, but I’d love a show where two well-adjusted detectives solve a dark, disturbing crime.Or is that just Psych?
But the real question is; can these two detectives co-exist?
Fargo, usually.
Fargo, the movie, is the prime example of this. It’s almost fairytale-like in the way that our hero Marge is good-hearted, hyper-competent, is respected by her peers, and in a deeply loving and supportive marriage with no tragic backstory. Meanwhile, the criminals are these sniveling back-stabbing disorganized creeps ultimately undone by their own incompetence and greed. In the anti-hero era of the past generation or so, that’s part of what makes it so refreshing!
The first three seasons of the show are like this too, although we didn’t really get any moral officers of the law in season 4.
melt down the tortured detective grapples with past trope and shoot it into my fucking veins.
Foster plays a jaded FBI Special Agent, who is still haunted by her first case: tracking a serial killer who sought to make himself a lady suit from actual ladies, with the aid of a cannibal psychiatrist…
“I’d love a show where two well-adjusted detectives solve a dark, disturbing crime.”Aka copaganda.#shameonyou
Yeah, I wish TV had more personality-less police procedurals.
Sounds like Wind River meets The Terror. Not a bad premise for a show if you ask me.
That Wind River was a real slice of happiness
Insomnia (the film) seems like a bit of an influence on this as well.
Yes! I immediately thought that as well when they mentioned they must “confront the darkness within themselves” (and it being set in Alaska of course doesn’t hurt).
I was hoping one of them would be playing the long-alluded-to namesake of the show: Trudy Tective.
Lance:
Hey, whattya think about Trudi? She ain’t got a boyfriend. You wanna hang out, get high?Vincent:
Which one’s Trudi? The one with all the shit in her face?Lance:
No, that’s Jody. That’s my wife.
Inject it into my veins.
Jodie Foster in Iceland? I’m in
I’d be more interested if she were in Farmfoods.
Episode 8 special guest star: Mel Gibson
I’ll only allow it if his Beaver turns out to be the killer.
The Tsalal!
Probably child molesters or inuit spirit monsters