Nicolas Cage in Talks to Star in True Detective Season 5 for HBO

Nicolas Cage is successful talks to prima successful True Detective Season 5 for HBO.

Information astir who’s successful the moving to pb the adjacent section of the transgression anthology amusement comes from Variety. If the National Treasure, Longlegs, and Pig prima is yet confirmed to appear, helium volition lone beryllium the latest to articulation True Detective’s agelong database of different big-name stars.

True Detective Season 5 got the greenlight from HBO successful March 2024, with Season 4: Night Country showrunner, writer, director, and enforcement shaper Issa López besides confirming her attachment astatine that time. Her engagement is portion of a new, multiyear wide woody that volition spot her creating exclusive contented for HBO Max, opening with Season 5.

Nicolas Cage. Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.

True Detective: Night Country took audiences to the blood-soaked streets of a tiny Alaskan municipality successful 2024, with Jode Foster and Kali Reis picked to pb viewers done its icy mysteries. Should Cage join, he’ll instrumentality portion successful a new, apt warmer communicative acceptable successful the Jamaica Bay country of New York City. Additional details astir True Detective: Season 5 stay nether wraps.

True Detective started beardown with Season 1 successful 2014 and starred Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. We gave its finale episodes unsocial a cleanable 10/10 successful our reappraisal upon its release. Season 2 past followed with Rachel McAdams, Colin Farrell, and Vince Vaughn successful 2015, with Season 3 yet arriving successful 2019 with Mahershala Ali and Carmen Ejogo.

It’s unclear erstwhile True Detective Season 5 volition get oregon adjacent if Cage volition beryllium its star. In the meantime, you tin work up connected however a reappraisal bombing run led López to inquire fans to permission their ain affirmative reviews. You tin besides larn much astir Cage's adjacent tv project: a live-action Spider-Noir spinoff amusement for Amazon's Prime Video.

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