It looks like most of the True Detective casting rumors are at least partially based on truth, which is more than one can say about the breathless speculation about Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain. TheWrap is reporting that the latest actor being considered is Mad Men‘s Elisabeth Moss, who would be perfect. She just wrapped the final season of Mad Men, and her role on Top of the Lake showed that she can handle heavy detective work.
We also have some plot details, again, courtesy of TheWrap:
According to a breakdown obtained by TheWrap, the second season of “True Detective” will follow the death of Ben Caspar, the corrupt city manager of a fictional California city who’s found brutally murdered amid a potentially groundbreaking transportation deal that would forever change freeway gridlock in the state. Three law enforcement officers from different cities and branches of the government are tasked with finding out who did it. They soon discover their investigation has much broader and darker implications than they initially thought.
Caspar’s 52-year-old corpse is found on a lonely stretch of Pacific Coast Highway near Big Sur — satanic symbols etched on his chest. It turns out he had a penchant for rough sex and may have been involved in the occult.
I’m so into that.
Moss would play Ani Bezzerides, “a tough, no-nonsense Monterey sheriff whose troubled upbringing has driven her to gambling and alcohol,” Colin Farrell would play Ray Velcoro, “who has been damaged by years of turmoil in both his personal and professional lives,” and Taylor Kitsch would play Paul Woodrugh, “a handsome, 28-year-old military veteran who has seen his own share of violence and destruction.” Most interesting to me, though, is the fact that Nic Pizzolatto is apparently writing the antagonist role with only Vince Vaughn in mind.
I can’t stress how much of this story I got from TheWrap, so HUGE thanks to them.
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