Over the weekend, Colin Farrell couldn’t resist revealing that he had landed one of the lead roles in the new season of “True Detective.” Today, HBO made it official and announced who Farrell’s co-star will be.
Vince Vaughn and Farrell have been signed to star in “True Detective’ Season 2. Vaughn will play Frank Semyon, “a career criminal in danger of losing his empire when his move into legitimate enterprise is upended by the murder of a business partner.” Farrell’s character is Ray Velcoro, a man described as “a compromised detective whose allegiances are torn between his masters in a corrupt police department and the mobster who owns him.”
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Still to be cast are two of the other lead roles for a pair of police officers who will join Velcoro in his quest to bring down Semyon and solve the murder case. Elisabeth Moss, Rachel McAdams, Malin Akerman and Jessica Biel have all been rumored to be up for the female lead, while Taylor Lautner has been heavily rumored to be up for the third leading role.
“True Detective” Season 2 will feature an all new storyline by series creator, Nic Pizzolatto. Earlier this month, director Justin Lin entered negotiations to direct the first two episodes of the eight episode season.
HBO has announced that the new season of “True Detective” will be filmed in California. A start date for production has not yet been announced.
