'True Detective' Season 2 Release Date, Cast News: HBO Shares Photos of Colin Farrell and Taylor Kirsch
HBO, the creator of the critically-acclaimed series "True Detective," recently shared photos of Season 2 cast members Colin Farrell and Taylor Kirsch as they were shooting on the set for the series. The photos were posted on Twitter last Feb. 21 and showed lead actor Colin Farrell sporting a mustache for his role as police officer Ray Velcoro. Taylor Kirsch, on the other hand, will play a California Highway patrolman Paul Woodrugh.
Huffington Post described the photos as "intense," with one scene showing a vested Farrell with his gun drawn confronting Taylor Kirsch.
Other cast members were not in the photos. Confirmed cast members for the next season include Rachel McAdams who will play one of the detectives and the only female lead in the story, Ana Bezzerides, and Vince Vaughh who is cast as the career criminal, Frank Semyon. Kelly Reilly, the English actress in "Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows," plays Frank's wife and "partner-in-crime."
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Production for the second season went underway in September 2014 although it was reported in Cinema Blend that HBO had signed up "True Detective" creator Nic Pizzolatto for another two years just a few weeks after Season 1 commenced in January 2014. Season 2 is set to air in summer of 2015.
According to the report, the next season will see some major changes. Apart from the new cast, the setting of the story will change from the "backwoods" of Louisiana to the California countryside, what the report called "a different backwoods." Season 2 will also see not two, but four lead characters, including one woman detective. While Nic Pizzolatto remains the "showrunner," there will be several directors who will direct different episodes in the next season. Some of the names include Justin Lin of "Fast and The Furious" and Will Friedkin of "The Exorcist."
"True Detective" Season 1 garnered several awards such as the Emmy Awards' Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for director Cary Joji Fukunaga, and the Writers' Guild of America Awards for Dramatic Series and New Series for Nic Pizzolatto.
