True Detective Season 2 Cast Rumors, And Plot Spoilers : Elisabeth Moss And Rachel McAdams Compete For Female Lead: Colin Farrell Taylor Kitsch, Garrett Hedlund, Vince Vaughn All Rumored To Be In Cast

True Detective" Season 2 is coming, here are all the rumors about casting, characters, plots and settings.

The show will be sticking to the anthology format, with new plots and main characters each season.

Show runner Nic Pizzolatto confirmed to Buzzfeed that there is no plan to work with a single director. "We don't have any plans to work with one director again. It would be impossible to do this yearly as we need to be able to do post while we're still filming, like any other show. There's some great guys I've consulted, and we're all confident we can achieve the same consistency."

"The Fast and The Furious" Justin Lin is rumored to be one of the directors involved with the new season.Deadline reports that Lin is in negotiations to direct at least the first two episodesof Season 2. 

Creator Nic Pizzolatto has dropped various plot details in a series of interviews; he also said in a June interview that "literally, not a single rumor about casting that has been printed anywhere has any truth to it whatsoever."

The plot focuses on the investigators will be trying to solve the death of Ben Caspar, a 52-year-old man who was killed and dumped on a highway with occult symbols scratched on his chest. Slate reports: 

"The second season of True Detective will follow the death of Ben Caspar, the corrupt city manager of a fictional California city who's found brutally murdered amid a potentially groundbreaking transportation deal that would forever change freeway gridlock in the state. Three law enforcement officers from different cities and branches of the government are tasked with finding out who did it. They soon discover their investigation has much broader and darker implications than they initially thought. Caspar's 52-year-old corpse is found on a lonely stretch of Pacific Coast Highway near Big Sur-satanic symbols etched on his chest. It turns out he had a penchant for rough sex and may have been involved in the occult."

The Wrap reported that the character Farrell's is alleged to play "has been damaged by years of turmoil," the Monterey sheriff dives into "gambling and alcohol" when she's not on duty and the California Highway Patrol the CHP officer was "put on leave" after he pulled over a lady for drunk driving and let her off after she got him off.

True Detective's second season will be set in California. In a podcast with the NPR's To the Best of Our Knowledge, Pizzolatto said "Not Los Angeles but some of the much lesser-known venues of California, and we're going to try to capture a certain psychosphere ambiance of the place, much like we did in Season 1."

Variety reported that Lombardo told an audience at the Edinburgh TV Festival, "It's still dark. Nic explores the darkness in people's souls. ... It's not as dark, but it's not a light ride. Nic likes looking into the crevices of the soul."

According to reports, Colin Farrell and Taylor Kitsch will be playing the two leads. Actress Elisabeth Moss is also allegedly in talks to play the female lead in the series. Vince Vaughn has been rumored to play the villian in this season. Rachel McAdams is the most recent star rumored to be the female lead in "True Detective" season 2.

McAdams is believed to be vying for the role of a "no nonsense" Californian sheriff driven to gambling and alcoholism by her dark past. Elisabeth Moss is allegedly competing with Adams for the part according to Variety. 

None of these casting rumors have been confirmed by HBO or the shows producers however. Production is scheduled to begin in September, so there is a chance it will be delayed due to casting, or HBO is deliberately keeping casting secret to build buzz.

Either way, check back for more "True Detective" Season 2 news as it becomes available.