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True Detective: Night Country Filming Start: BTS Image, Script Excerpt

Published Tue, 08 Nov 2022 10:23:12 -0600

As HBO continues previewing what it has in store for this year, 2023, and beyond, viewers looking for an update on Issa López (Tigers Are Not Afraid / Vuelven) & Barry Jenkins' (The Underground Railroad) upcoming new season of HBO's crime thriller anthology series True Detective: Night Country found themselves facing some good news. Along with a tweet confirming the start of work on the new season, the cable giant also released an excerpt from the season opener's script that perfectly sets the mood for what's to come. But before we get to that, a look behind-the-scenes at some sweet clapperboard action:

HBO's new season focuses on Detectives Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis), who are looking to solve the case of six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanishing without a trace when the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska. The pair will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves and dig into the haunting truths that lie buried under the eternal ice. Joining Foster and Reis are John Hawkes (Deadwood, Winter's Bone), Christopher Eccleston (Doctor Who, The Leftovers), Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve), Finn Bennett (Domina), and Anna Lambe (Three Pines). Now, here's a look at a tease from the first episode's script that was released today to confirm that filming was officially underway:

A long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska.

Production has begun on #TrueDetective #NightCountry. Take an exclusive look at the first episode script for True Detective: Night Country, coming to @hbomax. #HBO50 pic.twitter.com/t0kQ0trYDe

— HBO (@HBO) November 8, 2022

López is set to write & direct the pilot, with Alan Page Arriaga (Shining Girls) joining the writing team. Executive producers include López, Page Arriaga, Foster, Jenkins, Adele Romanski & Mark Ceryak for Pastel, Mari Jo Winkler, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Cary Joji Fukunaga & Nic Pizzolatto, along with Anonymous Content. "We are tremendously excited to return to the 'True Detective' franchise and to be working with the multi-talented Issa López, whose singular vision for her 'Night Country' installment will be beautifully realized with Jodie Foster and Kali Reis in the starring roles," said Francesca Orsi, EVP, HBO Programming, when news of the series order was first announced.

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