The HBO series True Detective is set to get a fourth season, titled True Detective: Night Country, and they’ve acquired quite the star to lead. It’s been revealed that none other than Jodie Foster will be starring as the lead of the new True Detective season. Furthermore, this marks her first live-action appearance as an adult on television.
After the second and third seasons of True Detective didn’t quite reach the same level of success with fans as the first season, this is a great announcement. The first three seasons were released between the years 2014 and 2019. But with Jodie Foster leading the fourth season, this definitely indicates a step up for the television show.
This news comes via Deadline, where they revealed the following:
“Jodie Foster is heading into Night Country.
The Silence of the Lambs star is to lead the fourth iteration of HBO’s True Detective franchise, True Detective: Night Country.
Foster, who will also exec produce the series, will play Detective Liz Danvers in the series, which comes from writer and director Issa López and executive producer Barry Jenkins.”
As for the setup of the new season…
“The series is centered around Detectives Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro who are looking to solve the case of six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanishing without a trace, when the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska. The pair will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.”
Alan Page Arriaga will be writing the exciting new season in addition to Issa López. Executive producers on True Detective: Night Country include Issa López, Alan Page Arriaga, Jodie Foster, Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski and Mark Ceryak for Pastel, Mari Jo Winkler, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Cary Joji Fukunaga, and Nic Pizzolatto alongside Anonymous Content.
Stay tuned to ScreenGeek for more updates on True Detective: Night Country as we have them.