Oscar winner Jodie Foster will star in the next season of “True Detective” with the first plot details for the series revealed….
Two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster has booked her first major TV role as she leads the cast for the resurrected series “True Detective” with season 4 on HBO.
While HBO currently lists “True Detective” season 4 in development, Foster’s casting all but cements that the show will be moving forward with Issa Lopez — who received rave reviews for her film “Tigers Are Not Afraid” — and Alan Page Arriaga — best known from “Fear the Walking Dead” — penning the scripts.
The new season has been dubbed “True Detective: Night Country” with plot details revealed for the first time alongside Foster’s casting.
“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 be playing Detective Liz Danvers, although further details about her character have not been revealed just yet. There’s no word on who will be cast as her partner in the show.
Of course, Foster is an icon with memorable roles in dozens of films including perhaps her most famous portrayal as FBI agent Clarice Starling in “Silence of the Lambs,” which earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress. Overall she’s a four-time Oscar nominee with a pair of wins including her role in the film “The Accused.”
This will also be the first season of “True Detective” without original series creator Nic Pizzolatto overseeing the series after he served as writer, showrunner and executive producer over the first three seasons. Pizzolatto received almost unanimous praise for “True Detective” season 1, which starred Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as Louisiana State Police detectives investigating an occult murder that spans more than 20 years.
While “True Detective” season 2 was not well received, Pizzolatto largely rebounded with “True Detective” season 3 but he then left HBO to ink an overall deal with FX. That deal also fizzled after Pizzolatto attempted to develop a new series with McConaughey attached to star but he eventually left the project, which was then scrapped at the Disney owned network.
Now a new team of writers and creators will take over for “True Detective” season 4 with Foster leading the way as the star of the latest version of the anthology crime series.
