Former “Deadwood” alum John Hawkes, former “Doctor Who” star Christopher Eccleston, “Killing Eve” and “Andor” actress Fiona Shaw, and young stars Finn Bennett (“Domina”) and Anna Lambe (“Three Pines”) have all scored leading roles in HBO’s “True Detective: Night Country”.
The quintet join the one and only Jodie Foster and boxer/actress Kali Reis in the fourth season of the anthology crime drama which will mark Foster’s first on-screen TV series work since the early 1970s.
In the series, a long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska and the six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace.
To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers (Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Reis) will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves and dig into the haunting truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.
Hawkes will play grudge-holding cop Hank Prior. Eccleston will portray his boss, the regional Chief of Police Ted Corsaro who has a long history with Foster’s Danvers.
Shaw is survivalist Rose Aguineau with a past full of secrets. Bennett is Danvers’ protege Peter Prior, and Lambe is a young nurse with a short fuse when it comes to family.
The new season will film Iceland with Issa Lopez (“Tigers Are Not Afraid”) serving as showrunner, writer, director and executive producer – replacing show creator Nic Pizzolatto.
Lopez, Foster, Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, Alan Page Arriaga, Mari Jo Winkler, Chris Mundy, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Cary Joji Fukunaga and Pizzolatto also executive produce.
Source: Deadline
