It’s a “True Detective” reunion! Matthew McConaughey will reunite with “True Detective” creator Nic Pizzolatto for a movie based mostly on the long-lasting Mike Hammer personal investigator character.
McConaughey is in talks to star in a characteristic movie at Skydance that’s based mostly on the guide collection by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins, with Pizzolatto having written the screenplay, a person with data of the mission informed IndieWire.
Skydance acquired the rights to the numerous books by Spillane and Collins with the plans to develop and produce the guide collection right into a characteristic. Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger will produce the movie together with Guymon Casady, Benjamin Forkner, and Ken F. Levin.
Writer Max Allan Collins will government produce with Jane Spillane serving as co-producer. Carin Sage will oversee the mission for Skydance.
It’s unclear which guide, if any, the Mike Hammer movie will particularly be based mostly on, however the character dates manner again to 1947 and has been dropped at the display screen quite a few occasions, maybe most famously in Robert Aldrich’s “Kiss Me Lethal” in 1955, wherein Ralph Meeker starred as Hammer. Mike Hammer is a step above — i.e. extra violent and brutal — than a number of the different hard-boiled detectives of his period like Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe. It feels like perfect materials for the “True Detective” creator.
McConaughey teamed with Pizzolatto within the first season of 2014’s “True Detective” collection for HBO. Starring alongside Woody Harrelson, McConaughey portrayed a former detective named Rust Cohle who displays along with his previous accomplice performed by Harrison on an previous case involving a serial killer. McConaughey was nominated for an Emmy for his work within the collection as one of many roles that was on the peak of his “McConaissance” revival.
Pizzolatto, a novelist himself, is in growth with Skydance on a number of different initiatives and is in post-production on a drama he’s additionally directing known as “Simple’s Waltz” starring Al Pacino and Vince Vaughn. At one level he was connected to adapt “Blade” for Marvel.
Deadline first reported the information.