Ali's detective character looks back to an old case as the scenes go back and forth between the past and present.
- Aug 27, 2018
AceShowbiz - HBO has released the first trailer for "True Detective" season 3 starring Mahershala Ali. The video shows the Oscar-winning actor's character, Arkansas state police detective Wayne Hays, at three different ages as he looks back to an old case that is haunting him.
"Before you ever knew me, I wasn't scared much. That wasn't a fear for me. Things I've seen, things I know, wouldn't do anything but cause harm," he says in voiceover, while the scenes go back and forth between the past and present. "My whole brain's a bunch of missing pieces."
"Did you think you could just go on, and never once have to look back?" a woman says to him. He then continues, "My job.... there's no certainty. This peace... is more haunting than anything. I want to know the whole story."
The third season will tell the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks, and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods.
Stephen Dorff ("Blade") plays his partner, Roland West, an Arkansas State Investigator whose career has been influenced by a baffling crime Arkansas. Ray Fisher ("Justice League") plays Wayne's son and Carmen Ejogo ("Selma") plays Amelia Reardon, an Arkansas schoolteacher.
Michael Greyeyes, Jon Tenney, Deborah Ayorinde, Rhys Wakefield, Sarah Gadon, Emily Nelson, Brandon Flynn, Michael Graziadei, Josh Hopkins and Jodi Balfour are also starring in the third installment of the crime anthology series.
Series creator Nic Pizzolatto wrote all episodes, with David Milch co-writing the fourth episode. Daniel Sackheim directs alongside Pizzolatto, who will make his directorial debut. Jeremy Saulnier directed the first two episodes.
Pizzolatto, Saulnier, Scott Stephens, season 1's stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, season 1's director Cary Joji Fukunaga, Scott Stephens, Steve Golin, Bard Dorros and Richard Brown serve as executive producers.
"True Detective" season 3 is slated to premiere in January 2019 on HBO. No exact date is announced just yet.
