This just in: The STW Daily News Round Up featuring all the streaming news that’s fit to (digitally) print for Thursday, June 30th, 2022. This week we get more True Detective: Night Country and Stranger Things, a lot of great content streaming this weekend!
This Much Is True Detective
Time is a flat circle, but for those keeping track, it’s been nearly a decade since the first season premiere of True Detective. And now HBO is back on the case with a fourth season called True Detective: Night Country.
This installment in the nihilistic and often esoteric crime series will star GOAT Jodie Foster along with relative newcomer Kali Reis. As a world champion boxer, Reis should be able to hold her own against heavyweight Foster. Reis made her acting debut in the sex trafficking revenge thriller, Catch The Fair One, and she appears in the upcoming Black Flies opposite Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan.
To what desolate and bleak landscape that time and humanity forgot will this season of True Detective take viewers? As the title suggests, this installment heads to some dark places, namely Alaska in winter where daylight can be hard to come by. HBO’s synopsis reads:
“When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the six men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers (Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Reis) will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.”
Issa López (Tigers Are Not Afraid) will serve as showrunner, writer, director, and executive producer. This will be the first season of the show not run by original creator, Nic Pizzolatto, although he will be staying on as an executive producer. López and Pizzolatto will be joined as executive producers by Jodie Foster, Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, Alan Page Arriaga, Anonymous Content, Mari Jo Winkler, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, and Cary Joji Fukunaga.
No release date yet, but what’s the rush? Time is a flat circle after all.
Millie Bobby Brown and The Russos Stick With Netflix
Netflix seems to be all about Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown and MCU vets The Russo Brothers.
After employing Brown for the past six years in the globally revered Stranger Things and creating her her own Sherlock Holmes franchise (Enola Holmes), Netflix is adding yet another Millie Bobby Brown project to their catalogue, this one directed by Joe and Anthony Russo.
The streamer has acquired The Electric State, a Russo Brother project, from Universal. The acquisition should come as no real surprise as Netflix also seems pretty chummy with the MCU vets given their assassin thriller The Gray Man will premiere on the streamer in mid-July.
The Ryan Gosling + Chris Evans action thriller The Gray Man looks poised to attract anyone with eyeballs, so it was a bit of a no-brainer for Netflix to take over The Electric State from Universal, which balked at the price tag (reportedly over $200 million).
The Electric State is based on Simon Stålenhag’s 2018 illustrated novel of the same name. The film will star Brown as an orphaned teenager searching an American west that is reminiscent of a retro-future for her missing brother, alongside a sweet but mysterious robot and an eccentric drifter.
Longtime Russo collaborators Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely will be writing the script, having previously written Avengers: Endgame and The Gray Man.
As the film is still in development, no release date has been announced.
An Old Dog Teaches FX Some New Tricks
Jeff Bridges is coming back, again. The beloved actor recently returned to screens in FX’s The Old Man after a hiatus spent recovering from both lymphoma and COVID. And though the CIA action thriller from Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine hasn’t even finished its first season run yet, FX has already announced that The Old Man is getting another season.
News of renewal seems something of a given after FX put out a press release stating that The Old Man’s first episode was the “most-watched cable series premiere” since January of 2021, and it was also the “most-watched FX series debut on Hulu in its opening weekend.”
Even after all this time, The Dude still abides.
A new episode of The Old Man hits FX tonight (and Hulu the following morning) with a season finale dropping on July 21st.