A 'True Detective' reunion in the works? Matthew McConaughey and Nic Pizzolatto in talks for new investigative thriller

If everything goes as per plan, we might see writer True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto teaming up with actor Matthew McConaughey for an investigative thriller film based on the series of books featuring the fictitious investigator Mike Hammer, reports entertainment outlet Deadline. The project is being backed by Skydance Entertainment.

 

Pizzolatto's work on the first season of True Detective, along with the performances of McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, and the rest of the cast, was met with near unanimous critical and audience acclaim. 

 

It's not clear whether the team is going for a contemporary take on the popular detective character or whether they'll stay true to the retro settings of the original books considering its author Mickey Spillane set in his stories in a much older time, specifically the late 1940s, in a post-war atmosphere. If the project comes to fruition, with the above settings intact, and with McConaughey and Pizzolatto, it could turn out to be one of the most exciting properties on the digital space, given how the works of authors such as Michael Connelly ("Bosch", "The Lincoln Lawyer"), Harlan Coben, and Erle Stanley Gardner (the Perry Mason books) have done quite well on TV.

 

Meanwhile, McConaughey will be next seen in Paul Greengrass's true-life inspired The Lost Bus, for Apple TV+, and director Andrew Patterson's (The Vast of Night) crime drama The Rivals of Amziah King.

 

The actor was on a brief hiatus after 2019's The Gentlemen, a gangster drama directed by Guy Ritchie.

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