‘True Detective: Night Country’ Gets Premiere Date & Trailer As HBO Chief Explains Delay Of Latest Iteration Starring Jodie Foster, Kali Reis
deadline.comHBO has set Jan. 14 as premiere date for True Detective: Night County, starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. The network also has released a new trailer for the six-episode series, which will be available to stream on Max.
Issa López serves as showrunner, writer, and director of all episodes. As Deadline reported last month, the latest installment in the True Detective crime anthology franchise, originally slated for release in 2023, had been pushed to January.
In an appearance at the Code Conference today, Casey Bloys, Chairman and CEO of HBO and Max Content at the Code Conference, confirmed that the delay was due to the strikes. (The WGA one ended this morning, the SAG-AFTRA one is still ongoing, with hopes that it too would come to an end soon.) “We put it in January because I wanted to make sure that we had Issa [Lopez] and Jodie Foster available to talk about it.” Here’s the official logline for the new iteration: When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the eight men who 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 haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.
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