True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto has an thought for the franchise that will return it to its roots.
Throughout a latest look on the Nothing Left Unsaid podcast, Pizzolatto revealed he has an thought for a “story” that will reprise Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson’s characters from season one of many crime drama. Notably, the 2 stars led the primary season of True Detective earlier than the collection went on to star a brand new batch of actors in each following installment.
“I even have one other story for Cohle and Hart that, who is aware of, perhaps we’ll do it sooner or later,” he mentioned, including that whereas he hasn’t put pen to paper on the concept, they’ve had conversations “about getting again collectively and doing it” and each McConaughey and Harrelson “are open to it.”
“It’s not one thing I’ve written or something, it’s simply in my head, and we’ve talked about getting again collectively and doing it,” he added. “I believe the blokes are open to it, it’s only a query of whether or not that will ever occur or not.”
After a rocky second season and a third season that restored religion within the franchise, Pizzolatto’s take care of HBO expired and he stepped away from True Detective to pursue one other undertaking. Issa López took over as the author for Evening Nation, the franchise’s fourth season, which grew to become its most-watched reiteration with 12.7 million viewers per episode, topping Pizzolatto’s first season (11.9 million).
Whereas Pizzolatto is not related to True Detective, he notably teamed up with McConaughey and Harrelson the place they respectively reprised their roles of Rustin Cohle and Martin Hart for an advert for True to Texas that urged the state’s laws to create incentives to attract in additional movie and TV productions.