It’s no thriller that Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson have turn into frequent collaborators after starring in and govt producing “True Detective” collectively. Now, unique collection creator Nic Pizzolatto is teasing that the performing duo may return to the hit HBO collection greater than 10 years since first starring collectively in it.
Pizzolatto, who served as an govt producer on “True Detective” Season 4 however has not written for the present since his HBO deal expired after Season 3, mentioned throughout the “Nothing Left Unsaid” podcast that he’s toying with one other “story” involving McConaughey and Harrelson’s respective characters, Rust Cohle and Martin Hart. Pizzolatto, McConaughey, and Harrelson lately reunited for a January 2025 advert for True to Texas, with McConaughey and Harrelson again as their “True Detective” characters.
“I even have one other story for [characters] Cohle and Hart that, who is aware of, possibly we’ll do it in the future,” Pizzolatto mentioned, including that all of them have had conversations “about getting again collectively and doing it” particularly since each McConaughey and Harrelson “are open to it.”
McConaughey and Harrelson solely appeared in Season 1 of anthology collection “True Detective.” Season 3 included references to their characters, confirming that it was set in the identical universe. Season 4 equally cited the Season 1 storyline.
Pizzolatto continued of his potential mission bringing again McConaughey and Harrelson, “It’s not one thing I’ve written or something, it’s simply in my head, and we’ve talked about getting again collectively and doing it. I feel the fellows are open to it, it’s only a query of whether or not that will ever occur or not.”
“True Detective” Season 4, titled “Night time Nation,” was written by new showrunner Issa López and starred Jodie Foster, who grew to become the primary actor to win an Emmy for “True Detective.” Pizzolatto infamously was vital of the season, saying that how “Night time Nation” narratively linked to his first season was “so silly.”
Pizzolatto beforehand was set to reunite along with his “True Detective” star McConaughey for FX drama collection “Redeemer” based mostly on Patrick Coleman’s debut novel “The Churchgoer.” The present was scrapped in 2021.
McConaughey has persistently praised Pizzolatto and his expertise on “True Detective” Season 1. The actor mentioned in March 2025 that “objectively” the primary installment remains to be his favourite season, regardless of nonetheless serving as an EP for the complete collection. “I occur to be in that one, so I believed that was unimaginable, unimaginable tv and an important collection. I watched it weekly, like everybody else, on Sunday evening, and that was an occasion for me,” he mentioned. “And I bought to take a seat again and luxuriate in that. I liked the water cooler discuss on Monday morning. Though I made it, I kind of forgot what was going to occur subsequent. It was one of many nice occasions in TV.”