It’s been thirty years since Jodie Foster won her second Oscar for playing young investigator Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs. Now, she’s playing a detective again, in the fourth season of HBO’s True Detective. The news arrives via a report from Deadline. The official title for this season of the hit anthology series is True Detective: Night Country.
Jodie Foster is also an executive producer for this season, and will play Detective Liz Danvers in the series. The creative force behind this newest iteration of True Detective is writer and director Issa López. You can read the official description right here:
“The series is centered around Detectives Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro who are looking to solve the case of six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanishing without a trace, when the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska. The pair will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.”
This already sounds spooky and intriguing, and in the vein of the celebrated first season of True Detective. While many big film actors transitioned to TV over the years, this marks the first time Foster has done television work since childhood. At least in front of the camera that is. In recent years, she directed episodes of Orange Is the New Black, Black Mirror and Tales From The Loop.
No word yet on when this new season is going before the cameras. The last season of True Detective came in 2019. We imagine this new season won’t premiere before late 2023 at the earliest. Here’s hoping that Foster can channel some of those Clarice Starling vibes, and give fans a new classic character. We love Jodie best when she’s the smartest sleuth in the room.