Between Woody Harrelson, Matthew McConaughey, Jodie Foster, Colin Farrell, Mahershala Ali, and Rachel McAdams, “True Detective” has a knack for getting massive film stars onto the small display screen, and the most recent could possibly be somebody who has solely not too long ago dipped his toes into tv: Nicolas Cage. Actually, the actor hinted approach again in 2023 that he could solely have just a few films left in him and would’ve needed to “have left on a excessive observe” earlier than turning to TV.
Cage is in talks to star within the fifth season of “True Detective” for HBO, a supply informed IndieWire. This season is claimed to be set within the Jamaica Bay space of New York Metropolis, and showrunner and author Issa Lopez, who took over for creator Nic Pizzolatto for the fourth season, “Night time Nation,” is again. Every other plot particulars are nonetheless below wraps.
HBO had no remark.
The one different occasion of Cage turning to tv because the lead for a sequence nonetheless hasn’t come out but. That may be “Spider-Noir,” the live-action, black and white sequence for Amazon that may be a spinoff of Cage’s character within the animated “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” In it he performs a Nineteen Thirties personal investigator/superhero compelled to grapple along with his previous life decisions. The sequence is ready to debut in 2026.
Not solely was “Night time Nation” the most-watched season of “True Detective” in its 4 seasons, it additionally broke the shedding streak for “True Detective” and gained its lead Jodie Foster an Emmy and Golden Globe, the primary time a lead for the sequence has gained the highest business prizes. Cage would nonetheless be a Tony and a Grammy away from EGOT standing if he managed the identical, however we will dream.
Pizzolatto had teased that Season 1 stars McConaughey and Harrelson have been keen on reprising their roles, with Pizzolatto saying he had one other thought for his or her characters Cohle and Hart, however Pizzolatto final wrote for the sequence in Season 3.
True to kind, Cage has been lots busy in each prestigious tasks and lower-budget shlock, starring in final 12 months’s “Longlegs,” “The Surfer,” and “Arcadian,” in addition to this 12 months’s “Gunslingers.” Along with the “Spider-Noir” sequence set for subsequent 12 months, Cage is taking part in NFL legend John Madden in a biopic being directed by David O. Russell, he’s starring in a sequel to “Lord of Conflict” from Andrew Niccol, he’ll seem in a horror movie referred to as “The Carpenter’s Son,” and he’s in publish on “The Prince,” primarily based on a David Mamet script.