True Detective season 4 is officially happening.
It's now three years since HBO's dread-soaked crime anthology aired – last starring Blade himself Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff – but it's widely accepted that the show's magic has been missing since 2014's first season, in which Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson headlined.
Via Deadline, we know that Jodie Foster (Silence of the Lambs) is the new lead, which bodes well for the next chapter.
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Subtitled Night Country, season 4 follows Foster's Detective Liz Danvers and her partner Evangeline Navarro, sent to solve the case of six missing men out at the Tsalal Arctic Research Station.
"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," teased a synopsis.
Writer and director Issa López is behind it, replacing True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto, while Barry Jenkins (The Underground Railroad) is on board as an executive producer.
Related: True Detective season 4 not in the works, says HBO boss
Back in 2019, HBO's president of programming Casey Bloys reflected on the third season's success, explaining: "Creatively, ratings-wise, it did everything that we wanted it to do. It's up to 8 million viewers an episode, we were thrilled with the review, [and] I think fans have really liked it.
"Obviously [the] acting is superb. I was very, very, very happy with all aspects of it."
Bloys seemed unsure about the show's future, though, saying: "I think we are going to handle it the same way as the last one – if Nic has an idea that he is excited about, we will talk about it but not rushing into anything.
"I think Nic is enjoying the current success of the show and maybe has something percolating, but nothing has come to us yet."
True Detective: Night Country will air on HBO in the US, and Sky Atlantic in the UK.
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