Carmen Ejogo joins True Detective Season 3

Carmen Ejogo (Selma, Alien: Covenant) has been cast to star opposite Mahershala Ali in the third season of Nic Pizzolatto’s True Detective.

True Detective Season 3 will tell the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods. Ejogo will play the female lead, Amelia Reardon, an Arkansas schoolteacher with a connection to two missing children in 1980. Ali stars as Wayne Hays, a state police detective from Northwest Arkansas.

Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin, Green Room) will co-direct alongside series creator Nic Pizzolatto.

Pizzolatto will write all episodes of True Detective Season 3 except for the fourth episode, which has been co-written with Emmy Award winner David Milch (NYPD Blue, Deadwood, Luck).

Source: THR