So who wants to write Season 3 with me?
Any writers out there want to write the 3rd season and send to HBO?
shareI'm down, our chances are slim but it would be fun. I'm an independent filmmaker myself and want to turn this idea into a script anyway.
I've pitched this idea before to this forum but didn't get much response.
Donald and Keifer Sutherland play the same man about 30 years apart.
A serial killer kills 28 African American people in the late 1980s and the early 1990s and a young derrick Johnson Sr.(keifer Sutherland) along with his partner, played by Michael C. Hall, solves the crime and locks up the perk, a man named Paul Franco.
2017- and aged Sutherland has gotten caught up in the fame of it all. With a best selling book and a movie deal on the way, he starts to receive cryptic threats that he arrested the wrong man. He will do anything to protect his legacy. His son, Ronny Johnson, played by Bryan Cranston, has always lived in his father's shadow. 3 weeks before Paul Francos execution, a African American family is killed, with weird DNA that matched the previous serial killer.
Ronny must balance his career; his love for his father, and his guilt that an innocent man might be executed leads him To investigate his fathers story, finding there are a lot more holes than anyone would like to admit, while racing against the clock when a threat is made that the killer is going to assassinate the towns first black mayor.
Kevin spacey plays an aged Paul Franco,
Stephen Baldwin plays detective Jeremy Hall, Ronny jrs partner.
Matthew McConaughey reprises his role as Rustin "Crash" Cohle, an undercover cop with the iron crusaders, who tries to help detective Johnson Sr, but lands them both in a gunfight that results in the death of 3 cartel members and while being shot multiple times himself.
That's all I got so far, what do you think?
I like the serial killer idea and the racial aspect of it. But the whole farther/son rise to fame and the subsequent return of the killer has been done over and over. It needs substance, a chemistry between the protagonists like what we had with McConaughey and Harrelson. They were like water and oil, yet they bonded. To me thats what worked for season one. That and that uncomfortable sense of the unknown.
And as for the assassination idea thats been over played too.
And I'm not trying to be funny but in terms of tone and the overall feel of it. As a reference you could look at the overall thematic material of Clive Barker's Candyman.
and as for the casting of the same man 30 years apart I would be tempted to cast Michael fassbender and Richard dormer.
That's a great premise is def watch that. I've already started writing a script for my idea. The title currently reads True Detective season 3 I may change it to be its own show.
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