Jodie Foster will lead the True Detective franchise
Acclaimed actor Jodie Foster is set to play the lead role in the fourth season of HBO’s popular “True Detective” series.
According to Deadline, Foster will also executive produce “True Detective: Night Country.”
In the show, written and directed by Issa Lopez, Foster will play Detective Liz Danvers.
The series centers on Detectives Denver and Evangeline Navarro, who seek to solve the case of six men who make the Tsall Arctic Research Station disappear without a trace when the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska.
The plot reads, “The pair must face the darkness within them and dig into the haunting truths that lie buried under eternal ice.”
Other executive producers are Barry Jenkins and Alan Page Arriaga, who also co-wrote the season with Lopez.
The show marks Foster’s first major TV role as an adult.
The actress, who began her career at the age of 12 with the movie “Taxi Driver”, has starred in series such as “Gunsmoke, My Three Sons” and ABC’s TV spin-off “Paper Moon” as a child.