Vince Vaughn Eyed For Season Two Of ‘True Detective’

It’s not a surprise that Vince Vaughn is in need of a career overhaul, but no one expected him to be in talks for True Detective’s next season.

Vaughn, who has spent his years phoning it in following hits like Dodgeball and Wedding Crashers, is in desperate need of a reinvention. Basically, he needs to not be Vince Vaughn in every role and perhaps maybe films like The Internship and The Dilemma wouldn’t exist. That’s why it looks like Vaughn might be heading to television.

According to TVLine Vince Vaughn might be joining the second season of the hit HBO show that might score Matthew McConaughey his first Emmy. Although the millennial generation won’t remember Vaughn as a dramatic actor, Psycho and The Cell are still fantastic performances that exist inside of Vaughn. Perhaps he has just been waiting for the right time to unleash that talent again. Although there’s nothing wrong with turning to comedy, there might be nothing worse these days than watching an actor bored up on screen as he shuffles around a plot hole-filled stinker.

True Detective might give Vaughn an opportunity to stretch past his comfort zone, and if all works out, it might even relaunch his career as someone who should be worth watching. According to the site, Vaughn is in preliminary talks so nothing is set in stone yet.

If Vince joins True Detective he’s going to be a part of a really impressive cast. A few weeks ago we reported that Colin Farrell and Taylor Kitsch were in talks to be the two lead roles for the season. That said, creator Nic Pizzolatto said that the season may have four new leads and it would be set in California. Perhaps this means they found their third lead in Vince Vaughn? Nothing’s official but we don’t know why Vaughn wouldn’t take this opportunity and run with it.

Of the upcoming season Michael Lombardo, the president of HBO said:

“[T]he two scripts we have are…more exciting than the first season.”

As for the two new characters, Pizzolatto said:

“Yep, but since then they’ve deepened and become richer. Creating new characters for Season 2 was the same experience as creating Rust and Marty. They didn’t exist until I created them, then in their creation I developed a personal attachment to them. I think it’s the same in anything you write.”

So far we haven’t heard more about Colin Farrell and Taylor Kitsch’s involvement but it’s said that a casting announcement is imminent.

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