‘True Detective’ Season 2: HBO Confirms Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn To Star

After much speculation, HBO has finally confirmed the two new stars of “True Detective” Season 2.

Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn will take over for departed Season 1 duo Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, HBO announced on Tuesday.

Farrell (who reportedly confirmed the news to an Irish publication over the weekend) will play Ray Velcoro, who HBO described as “a compromised detective whose allegiances are torn between his masters in a corrupt police department and the mobster who owns him.”

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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.”

As for the plot, HBO said Season 2 will follow “three police officers and a career criminal [who] must navigate a web of conspiracy in the aftermath of a murder.”

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Production on the eight-episode Season 2 will begin later this fall in California.

While a bevy of names have been swirling around Season 2 for months, no additional castings have been confirmed by HBO yet.

“True Detective” Season 1 — which followed McConaughey and Harrelson as cops in Louisiana — was nominated for 12 Emmy awards, and won five.

— Eric Anderson

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