True Detective Casting News: Mattherw McConaughey Won't Do Season 2; True Detective Series 2 Won't Be One Director Affair

True Detective casting news. The HBO series "True Detective" ended its first season Sunday.

Matthew McConaughey isn't doing True Detective Season 2. confirmed that won't be coming back to True Detective when HBO renews it for a season 2.  At least one of the mysteries has been solved. 

Matthew McConaughey is in high demand, on both big and small screens. Matthew McConaughey who won an Oscar for his role in "Dallas Buyers Club," is not returning for True Detective season 2.

HBO always said True Detective was gong to be  a stand-alone series. The first season featured Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as detectives in Louisiana on the trail of a killer with satanic cult connections.The series has been described as an "anthology" with a changing plot line and cast for every season.

McConaughey is also an executive producer on eight episode series.

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"True Detective" was created by Nic Pizzolatto. The series debuted in January in U.S. for eight episodes. It was an instant hit with 2.3 million viewers in the premiere ratings.

Last week, Nic Pizzolatto, the former academic who created and wrote True Detective hinted that "It would be great if we could use some of the same actors, like a reparatory company. It would be different characters, different setting. That's part of the fun of the anthology."

Nic hinted that next season will not be a one-director show, he told Buzzfeed "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[-production] while we're still filming, like any other show."

Cary Fukunaga will continue on as an executive producer and will direct some of the episodes. 

McConaughey said "No, I won't be back for season two. Season one was finite."

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