Skip to footer

Vince Vaughn, Colin Farrell are confirmed to star in new season of 'True Detective'

Soon after Farrell revealed in an interview that he's starring in the new episodes, HBO confirmed that Farrell and Vaughn are on board for the second season. The actors who will be playing two other lead characters have not yet been revealed.

|
Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
According to HBO, Vince Vaughn will star in the new season of the network's drama 'True Detective.'

Soon after actor Colin Farrell revealed he would star in the upcoming season of the critically acclaimed HBO drama “True Detective,” HBO confirmed that Farrell will star and stated that actor Vince Vaughn will also be in the new episodes. 

Farrell recently said in an interview with the Sunday World that he is “doing the second series… I’m so excited” and that the new season will consist of eight episodes like the first season. Now HBO has confirmed that Farrell and Vaughn will star in the new episodes, according to Variety, and that Justin Lin of “Fast & Furious 6” will direct the first two episodes in the new season.

The official summary of the new episodes, according to Deadline, is “Three police officers and a career criminal must navigate a web of conspiracy in the aftermath of a murder.”

Farrell will play a police detective named Ray Velcoro who has ties to a mobster, while Vaughn will portray Frank Semyon, a criminal who tries to start a law-abiding venture but soon discovers that a business partner has been killed.

According to Deadline, the other two police officers will be named Paul Woodrugh and the other will be Ani Bezzerides.

The first season of the drama starred Matthew McConaughey of “Dallas Buyers Club” and “The Hunger Games” actor Woody Harrelson as police detectives in Louisiana investigating a series of bizarre crimes. The show was nominated for Outstanding Drama Series at the most recent Emmy Awards and McConaughey and Harrelson were both nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for their roles. Los Angeles Times critic Robert Lloyd called the first season “quietly terrific… Even minor characters get room to breathe, and seem independently alive… The dance [McConaughey and Harrelson] do together here is work of a very high order, and all the reason you need to watch.”

You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.
Real news can be honest, hopeful, credible, constructive.
What is the Monitor difference? Tackling the tough headlines – with humanity. Listening to sources – with respect. Seeing the story that others are missing by reporting what so often gets overlooked: the values that connect us. That’s Monitor reporting – news that changes how you see the world.
editor@csmonitor.com
Subscribe
Mark Sappenfield
Editor

Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.

Subscribe to insightful journalism

QR Code to Vince Vaughn, Colin Farrell are confirmed to star in new season of 'True Detective'
Read this article in
https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Culture-Cafe/2014/0924/Vince-Vaughn-Colin-Farrell-are-confirmed-to-star-in-new-season-of-True-Detective
QR Code to Subscription page
Start your subscription today
https://www.csmonitor.com/subscribe