Four individual new posters of HBO's gritty crime series "True Detective" Season 2 was released by the network featuring the all-star cast Collin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch. Series creator Nic Pizzolatto also revealed two major changes in the show's second run: a more integrated, linear-structured, and occult-free plot.
As the countdown to the second season of HBO's "True Detective" ticks away, series creator Nic Pizzolatto teases its fans with its four newly released character posters - McAdams' Ventura County Sheriff's detective Ani Bezzerides, Farrell's detective Ray Velcoro, Kitsch's Highway Patrol cop, Paul Woodrugh, and Vince Vaughn's career criminal Frank Semyon.
The posters also featured the phrase "We get the world we deserve," which was seen on the season 2 animated posters.
Set in Los Angeles, California, the second season of the show will be focusing on a murder case which brings three law enforcement officers together and a career criminal involving investigations, conspiracies and billions of dollars.
In a Q&A series with the creator, Pizzolatto, who teased the fans that Season 2 would be about "bad men, hard women, and the secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system," takes it back and claims that it is now only two-thirds true.
"There's definitely bad men and hard women, but no secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system," Pizzolatto said. "That was a comment from very early in the process, and something I ended up discarding in favor of closer character work and a more grounded crime story."
Also, the complicated flashback structure of the show is also set to be replaced with a simple, more straightforward, linear structure.
"I try to be open to whatever structure the story and characters suggest. As the characters multiplied and their individual and group complications grew, a more integrated and linear structure worked best. And there was the conviction that if we were to do something entirely new, then we shouldn't lean on past conceits, but really build from scratch," Pizzolatto stated.
While these changes might wipe out all the viewers' theories during the first season, these also mean that there will be whole story to look forward to.
The whole second season of "True Detective" is penned by the series creator Nic Pizzolatto while the first two episodes is directed by "Fast and Furious" Justin Lin. Jane Eyre, the first season's director, will executive produce alongside "Sin Nombre's" Cary Fukunaga.
"True Detective" is set to return for Season 2 on June 21 at 9 p.m. on HBO.
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