True Detective: Night Country (HBO) - EP: Issa Lopez, Barry Jenkins - S: Jodie Foster - premieres 1/14/24
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True Detective: Night Country (HBO) - EP: Issa Lopez, Barry Jenkins - S: Jodie Foster - premieres 1/14/24
Nic Pizzolatto is not involved with this new version
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I am kind of disappointed Nic isn't involved at all. Though I get why some people are down on him after that unwatchable S2 - - the TV show that introduced me to the concept of the Hate Watch.
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Well that is very, very cool casting.
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Here's plot details. Looks like it's taking place in Alaska and the secondary lead hasn't been cast yet.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv...-4-1235154910/
Season four of True Detective, dubbed Night Country, remains in the development stages though Foster’s casting certainly makes a formal series green light all but a given. Here’s how HBO describes True Detective: Night Country: “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 and Evangeline Navarro will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.”
Foster will play Liz Danvers. Additional details about the character were not immediately available.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv...-4-1235154910/
Season four of True Detective, dubbed Night Country, remains in the development stages though Foster’s casting certainly makes a formal series green light all but a given. Here’s how HBO describes True Detective: Night Country: “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 and Evangeline Navarro will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.”
Foster will play Liz Danvers. Additional details about the character were not immediately available.
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Season 2 was fine, it's just that season 1 was one of the most perfect shows I've ever seen, and people wanted more of that. Season 3 was just as 'not great', but I don't think it gets the hate that 2 has.
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I don't mind Pizzolatto not being involved. I always thought they should have used the name of the show as a banner for different writers to create detective shows. Since the seasons aren't connected anyway, I never saw the necessity for Pizzolatto doing all of them.
So in theory something like Mare of Easttown or Sharp Objects could have been a True Detective season.
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I don’t think anything will ever live up to that first season. It was just too good and had awesome star power with Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey.
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It was pretty fantastic for sure. I don't mind new showrunners making additional True Detective seasons. Even though the story is sort of told I want to see another season of Mare, that show was incredibly good.
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Actor, professional boxer and Indigenous rights advocate Kali Reis is set to star opposite Jodie Foster in True Detective: Night Country. With both leads in place, Season 4 of the crime thriller anthology series has received a formal greenlight by HBO.
Reis recently burst into the Hollywood scene with her acting debut in the indie film Catch the Fair One, on which she also helped develop the story with director Josef Kubota Wladyka. Her performance earned her a special Jury Mention for Best Actress at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, where the film won the Audience Award, as well as a 2022 Indie Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead. It also got the attention of True Detective producers. Reis was identified as the choice for the co-lead opposite Foster weeks ago. It took awhile for her deal to get done as insurance and other issues had to be worked out in light of Reis’ boxing career. She has no upcoming fights scheduled at this time.
In True Detective: Night Country, from writer/director/showrunner Issa López, 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.
López and Foster serve as executive producers alongside Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak through Pastel. Alan Page Arriaga is a writer/executive producer. Anonymous Content, Mari Jo Winkler, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Cary Joji Fukunaga, and Nic Pizzolatto also executive produce. The new season will be filmed in Iceland.
“We are tremendously excited to return to the True Detective franchise and to be working with the multi-talented Issa López, whose singular vision for her ‘Night Country’ installment will be beautifully realized with Jodie Foster and Kali Reis in the starring roles,” said Francesca Orsi, EVP, HBO Programming.
Reis is boxing’s first Indigenous American female world champion. Coincidently, she made her TV debut on HBO in 2018 in the network’s HBO Boxing franchise. Reis recently wrapped principal photography on her second movie, Black Flies, opposite Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan.
She is a motivational speaker and vocal supporter of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls movement, and teaches young Native women how to fight, both physically and vocally, against the targeting of Native youth. Reis is repped by ICM Partners, Authentic Talent & Literary Management.
Reis recently burst into the Hollywood scene with her acting debut in the indie film Catch the Fair One, on which she also helped develop the story with director Josef Kubota Wladyka. Her performance earned her a special Jury Mention for Best Actress at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, where the film won the Audience Award, as well as a 2022 Indie Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead. It also got the attention of True Detective producers. Reis was identified as the choice for the co-lead opposite Foster weeks ago. It took awhile for her deal to get done as insurance and other issues had to be worked out in light of Reis’ boxing career. She has no upcoming fights scheduled at this time.
In True Detective: Night Country, from writer/director/showrunner Issa López, 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.
López and Foster serve as executive producers alongside Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak through Pastel. Alan Page Arriaga is a writer/executive producer. Anonymous Content, Mari Jo Winkler, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Cary Joji Fukunaga, and Nic Pizzolatto also executive produce. The new season will be filmed in Iceland.
“We are tremendously excited to return to the True Detective franchise and to be working with the multi-talented Issa López, whose singular vision for her ‘Night Country’ installment will be beautifully realized with Jodie Foster and Kali Reis in the starring roles,” said Francesca Orsi, EVP, HBO Programming.
Reis is boxing’s first Indigenous American female world champion. Coincidently, she made her TV debut on HBO in 2018 in the network’s HBO Boxing franchise. Reis recently wrapped principal photography on her second movie, Black Flies, opposite Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan.
She is a motivational speaker and vocal supporter of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls movement, and teaches young Native women how to fight, both physically and vocally, against the targeting of Native youth. Reis is repped by ICM Partners, Authentic Talent & Literary Management.
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I'm kind of down on True Detective. I even thought the first season was overrated. Think it's a solid, well made show, but not deserving of the hype and praise it gets IMO
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Kind of cool that Jodie Foster is reprising the role she played in an episode of season one. I also like the idea of the Alaska setting. Kinda different. A little more interested than I previously was.
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IMDB lists her as playing the role in the first episode of Season 4, but of course they're not killing her off in the first episode.
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Ah I got confused by the filmography. I haven’t watched season one for a bit. Either way kinda cool to have her.
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No trailer. Just a quick promo teaser
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Will there be Green Lanterns in this?
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Interesting. I’m wondering if it will have Insomnia vibes.
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First trailer
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I know that crap in the police officer's face is going to bug the shit out of me all season long.
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I may actually watch a season of this. Looked Fargo, Insomnia. Love Foster. I expect good things.