HBO's TRUE DETECTIVE is Officially a Go with The Director of THE GREEN ROOM and Plot Details Revealed

The Cable Network HBO has officially given the "go ahead" on the third season of Nic Pizzolatto’s popular crime series True Detective. Earlier this summer HBO closed a deal with Oscar winner Mahershala Ali to star in the 3rd installment. Jeremy Saulnier (The Green Room) has now been set as a Season 3 director alongside Pizzolatto who will make his directorial debut on the series.

Deadline Hollywood reports that season 3 of True Detective tells the story of a dark crime in the heart of the Ozarks, and "a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods." Ali plays the lead role of Wayne Hays, a state police detective from Northwest Arkansas.

Like with the breakout first season of True Detective, which Pizzolatto wrote by himself, he is the only writer on this newest season except for episode 4 which he co-wrote with David Milch. We still don't know how many total episodes Season 3 will have because Pizzolatto is still writing. The first two seasons consisted of 8 episodes each.

“I’m tremendously thrilled to be working with artists at the level of Mahershala and Jeremy,” Pizzolatto said. “I hope the material can do justice to their talents, and we’re all very excited to tell this story.”

Pizzolatto will also serve as showrunner and will executive produce; Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, who co-starred in Season 1, will also serve as producers.

Also there has been no announcement as far as an airdate goes, but I imagine that it won't be too long before we find that out too.