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The cast for the second season of True Detective is several steps closer to completion. Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn are confirmed (and Taylor Kitsch said recently that his deal is done), and now the show has added yet more names, with Kelly Reilly, Michael Irby, Abigail Spencer and Leven Rambin all reportedly signing on. Set in California locales, and once more written by Nic Pizzolatto, the new season sees Farrell as Velcoro, a compromised detective whose allegiances are torn between his masters in a corrupt police department and the mobster who owns him. Vaughn will play Frank Semyon, a career criminal in danger of losing his empire when his move into legitimate enterprise is upended by the murder of a business partner. Rachel McAdams is reported to be close to a deal to play police detective Ani Bezzerides. Irby is playing Elvis Ilinca, McAdams’ police partner, but the other new arrivals’ roles are shrouded in secrecy for now. Justin Lin is set to direct the first two

They've been rumored for a while now – and Farrell essentially let the cat out of the bag at the weekend – but HBO has made it official, announcing that Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn will star in the second season of the hit crime anthology drama True Detective . Set in several California locales, and once more written by Nic Pizzolatto, the new season sees Farrell as play Velcoro, a compromised detective whose allegiances are torn between his masters in a corrupt police department and the mobster who owns him. Vaughn will play Frank Semyon, a career criminal in danger of losing his empire when his move into legitimate enterprise is upended by the murder of a business partner. The season will run as eight hour-long episodes and is scheduled to start shooting this autumn in California. Justin Lin , who has also been rumored as attached, was confirmed in the same press release by the cable channel as directing the first two episodes. No information was provided about other p

As rumors swirl regarding the second season of HBO's “ True Detective ,” Taylor Kitsch has been offered the lead in Screen Gems’ English-language remake of “ The Raid ,” multiple individuals familiar with the project have told TheWrap . While Kitsch's team has been pushing HBO and “True Detective” creator Nic Pizzolatto to cast him as the young male lead of the second season, they've been positioning him for “The Raid” remake in the meantime. Patrick Hughes (“The Expendables 3”) is directing the action movie, which is gearing up for a January 2015 shoot. Coincidentally, that is when the second season of “True Detective” is slated to wrap filming. While two sources told TheWrap that Kitsch is in negotiations for “The Raid,” one cautioned that the two sides remain apart on financial terms of the proposed deal. Representatives for Kitsch and Screen Gems did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Brad Ingelsby (“Run All Night”) wrote “The Raid” remake, wh

TV  Review  : True Detective  “After You've Gone” By Brandon Wolfe With the flashback/interrogation structure officially put to bed, we’re now firmly in the 2012 portion of the story. Rust has successfully managed to convince Marty to have a beer with him, where he attempts to recruit his former partner back into the investigation that has bedeviled them over the past couple of decades. Marty, as ever, thinks Rust is a kook and wants no part of the tree that he continues to bark up, but Rust, alluding to the debt Marty still owes him from the Ledoux cover-up, gets him to come at least as far as the mysterious storage unit that Rust guards so closely. The unit, it turns out, is a de facto office space that Rust has made his base of operations in the Tuttle investigation, and it’s there that Rust lays out his case to Marty. At first, Rust offers intriguing but thin missing-persons data to an unimpressed Marty, but his argument grows more compelling when he reveals that