It’s one “True Detective” reunion! Matthew McConaughey will be reunited with ”True detective“The creator Nic pizzolatto for one film Based on the iconic Mike Hammer Private Investigator character.
McConaughey is in conversation by starting in a feature film at Skydance that is based on the book series by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins, with pizzolatto who has written the script, an individual with knowledge of the project told Indiewire.
Skydance acquired the rights to the many books of Spillane and Collins with the plans to develop and produce the book series for a function. Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger will produce the film together with Guomon Casady, Benjamin Forkner and Ken F. Levin.
Author Max Allan Collins will produce with Jane Spillane, which serves as a co -producer. Carin Sage will monitor the project for Skydance.
It is unclear which book, if anyone, Mike Hammer movie will be specifically based on, but the character goes back to 1947 and has been brought to the screen several times, perhaps best known in Robert Aldrich’s “Kiss Me Deadly” in 1955, where Ralph Meeker played as Hammer. Mike Hammer is a step above — DVS more violent and brutal-than some of the other hard-boiled detectives in his era as Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe. It sounds like ideal material for the “True Detective” creator.
McConaughey collaborated with Pizzolatto during the first season of 2014’s “True Detective” series for HBO. With the lead role with Woody Harrelson, McConaughey portrayed a former detective named Rust Cohle who reflects with his old partner played by Harrison on an old case involving a serial killer. McConaughey was nominated for an Emmy for his work in the series as one of the roles on top of his “McConaissance” live.
Pizzolatto, a novelist, is under development with Skydance on several other projects and is in post -production on a drama which he also directs called “Easy’s Waltz” with Al Pacino and Vince Vaughn. At one point he was attached to adapt “Blade” for Marvel.
Deadline first reported the news.
