Eleven years after “True Detective”, Matthew McConaughey finds creator Nic Pizzolatto for a film project around the character Mike Hammer, hero of a TV series in the 1950s.
No, Matthew McConaughey will not return to True Detective. Nevertheless, the actor, oscored in 2014 for Dallas Buyers Club, will find the creator of the series, Nic Pizzolatto, for a new police project.
By impossible mission producers
According to Varietythe duo should work around Mike Hammer's adaptation to the cinema. Created by author Mickey Spillane, this New York private detective character equipped with a blue Mustang was first the hero of a series of novels before being adapted on the small screen with a soap for 1958.
The production company Skydance – which also produces Mission Impossible – has acquired the rights in the hope of development a feature film. Matthew McConaughey should play the title role.
The return of Matthew McConaughey
The actor is absent from the screens for six years to focus on his private life. He will soon be playing the new film by Paul Greanggrass, The Lost Bus, available this fall on Apple TV+.
Mike Hammer's adventures on television have several forms over the years. After the first version of the fifties with Darren McGavin, a new adaptation was offered during the 1980s. The latter extended on three seasons and was broadcast on Canal+, the five, then TF1.
For its interpretation in True detectiveMatthew McConaughey had been appointed to the Emmy Awards and for the Golden Globe for best actor in a series.
Mike Hammer, soon in the movies
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