Over three years sinceTrue Detective’s haunting third season, which reclaimed some of the show’s former glory, fans can expect big things in its fourth installment.Jodie Fosterwill star in the HBO Emmy Award-winning crime anthology,True Detectivefor its fourth season,True Detective: Night Country.
The fourth season ofTrue Detectivewas announced back in March, withBarryJenkinsandIssaLópezdeveloping the latest installment. Now, HBO has announced that Season Four will take place in Ennis, Alaska at the Tsalal Arctic Research Station, where six men mysteriously vanish during the long winter. For the first time,True Detectivewill cast two female leads, Detective Liz Danvers (Foster) and Detective Evangeline Navarro, who will have to work together to solve the disappearances while dealing with their own internal darkness. They’ll need to rely on each other to dig up answers before the case goes ice-cold.
Season Three ofTrue Detectivebrought the show back to its roots, following detectives Roland, played byStephen Dorff(Blade), and Hayes, played byMahershala Ali(Moonlight,Green Book), in the investigation of the murder of a young boy, skipping between 1980, 1990, and 2015. Ali was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie at the 2019 Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Detective Wayne Hays.
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Two-time Academy Award-winner Foster (Silence of the Lambs,Taxi Driver) will not only star in the franchise, but is also the executive producer, working alongside Lopez, who will also be executive producing and writing for the show.Night Countrywill be Foster’s first starring role in a television series since 1975, though she has done voice work on shows likeTheSimpsons,Frasier, andThe X-Files, and directed episodes ofBlackMirrorandOrange Is the New Black, which earned her an Emmy nomination.
Lopez, who wrote forTrue Detectivein 2014, will be directing the pilot episode forNight Country.Alan Page Arriaga(Shining Girls) will executive produce and co-write. Other executive producers includeAdele Romanski, Jenkins,Mark Ceryak, as well as Anonymous Content, a producer of past seasons,Joji Fukunaga(The Alienist),Woody Harrelson(Natural Born Killers),Matthew McConaughey(Dallas Buyers Club), and the series creator,Nic Pizzolatto.
Not much else is known regarding the plot or cast forTrue Detective’s fourth installment. No release date has been announced.
