'True Detective' Season 2 Rumors: Show to Feature 3 Lead Characters
"True Detective" season 2 will feature 3 lead characters, according to the show's writer Nic Pizzolatto.
During an interview with public radio program "To the Best of Our Knowledge," he revealed some of the plans for the follow-up to last year's explosive season.
"We're working with three leads. It takes place in California – not Los Angeles, but some of the much lesser known venues in California and we're going to try to capture a certain psychosphere ambiance of the place, much like we did in season one," he said.
He also discussed the change in characters.
"The characters are all new, but I'm deeply in love with each of them. We've got the entire series broken out with a couple of scripts, and we'll probably start casting in earnest in the coming months," Pizzolatto added.
Pizzolatto first hinted in an interview with Buzzfeed earlier this year that the second season might take place in southern California.
When asked about what other long-term stories he could write for the next one he revealed a possible location.
"Oh, all kinds of conspiracies suggest themselves," he said. "Especially if, like me, you've been reading about the last 40 years of southern California government."
He also discussed a tweet that he deleted, which addressed the show's lack of strong female characters during the first season.
"I deleted the tweet because I didn't want to be beholden to a promise and then change my mind," he said. "I'm writing Season 2 right now, but I don't want to divulge any potentialities, because so much could change. I just never want to create from a place of critical placation- that's a dead zone. So I don't want, for instance, a gender-bias-critique to influence what I do."
Pizzolatto previously revealed that Season 2 will revolve around "hard women," "bad men" and the "secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system."
