Stephen Dorff will star alongside Mahershala Ali and Carmen Ejogo in season True Detective.
The third season will tell the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks and deepens a mystery for decades and is divided into three different time periods. Ali will play the lead role of Wayne Hays, a detective from the state police Northwest Arkansas.
Dorff will play Wayne mate, Roland West , a state investigator Arkansas who, along with his partner, has influenced his life and career for more than three decades by a puzzling crime.
As with the initial delivery of True Detective, Pizzolatto is the only writer of the third season, except for Episode 4, he co - wrote with David Milch. Jeremy Saulnier is the director of the season with Pizzolatto , who will make his directorial debut.
Pizzolatto , also serves as showrunner, executive producer Saulnier and executive producers Scott Stephens; Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson , who led the season 1; Cary Joji Fukunaga, who led the season 1; along with Scott Stephens, Steve Golin, Bard Dorros and Richard Brown.
The most recent credits Dorff include film Wheeler , the story of an aspiring musician from Texas who travels to Nashville with dreams of a lifetime to try country music. Dorff wrote and co-directed the project and wrote and performed all the music. He also appealed as Brody Dean in the musical drama FOX Star and was recently elected to the prequel Texas Leathersaw Massacre, Leatherface.