The True Detective season 2 premiere date is going to be delayed due to a prolonged casting process and the fact that filming hasn’t even started, according to a new report.
HBO and producers said recently that fans could expect season 2 to kick off in summer 2015, about 18 months following the end of season 1.
But a delay in filming, and the fact that the casting process isn’t complete, along with other factors, seems to indicate that the show won’t come out until fall 2015 at the earliest.
“For now, HBO and its producing partners will only say that filming is to take place ’this fall.' No production start date has been announced, and there are several key roles left to cast, crews to hire, and plenty of pre-production work left to do. What’s shaping up is a potential logistical squeeze, compared to the process they went through for Season 1,” wrote Josh Dickey in Mashable.
The report notes that the scrips also don’t seem to be complete, and that the biggest crunch actually comes after filming is complete.
“But the biggest crunch comes after filming is complete. The first season of True Detective was shot in Louisiana beginning April 9, 2013, with a premiere airdate of January 12, 2014. That’s a nine-month turnaround from the start of production to start-of-series — not particularly tight, not particularly leisurely. Certainly impressive for a show of its size and scope,” it said.
