{"id":884807,"date":"2026-10-16T21:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T21:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884807\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T21:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T21:52:09","slug":"antonio-banderas-joins-nicolas-cage-in-true-detective-season-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884807\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Banderas Joins Nicolas Cage In \u2018True Detective\u2019 Season 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe next season of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/true-detective\/\" id=\"auto-tag_true-detective\" data-tag=\"true-detective\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">True Detective<\/a> is starting to take shape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/antonio-banderas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_antonio-banderas\" data-tag=\"antonio-banderas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Antonio Banderas<\/a> has joined the cast of season five of the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hbo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo\" data-tag=\"hbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a> anthology drama. This comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nicolas-cage\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nicolas-cage\" data-tag=\"nicolas-cage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolas Cage<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/10\/nicolas-cage-new-york-comic-con-spider-noir-true-detective-1237154069\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> that he was entering the universe at last week\u2019s New York Comic-Con, more than a year after it was <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/nicolas-cage-true-detective-season-5-hbo-1236494884\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a> that the Pig star was in talks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProduction is set to start in 2027 for the show, which is being led by showrunner Issa L\u00f3pez, who oversaw season four, Night Country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThere are few details about the season but Cage will star as Henry Logan and Pain and Glory star Banderas will play Rai Garcia. It will be set in Jamaica Bay, New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNight Country was set in Alaska and starred Jodie Foster and Kali Reis, season three was set in the Ozarks and starred Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff, season two was set in California and starred Vince Vaughn, Colin Farrell and Rachel McAdams and season one was set in Louisiana and starred Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tL\u00f3pez serves as writer, director and showrunner and will exec produce alongside Cage, Banderas, Harrelson, McConaughey, Daniel Zelman, Mari Jo Winkler, Kathleen McCaffrey, Steve Golin, Richard Brown, Nic Pizzolatto and Cary Joji Fukunaga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLast year, HBO\u2019s Head of Drama Series <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/02\/true-detective-season-5-setting-revealed-begin-production-1236286442\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Francesca Orsi told Deadline<\/a>, \u201cIssa has a lot to say, not unlike she did with Night Country. It\u2019s a different milieu but just as powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tL\u00f3pez also previously teased that there will be some \u201cimportant connections\u201d between everything that happened in Alaska and what happens in the new season. \u201cThat said, it\u2019s a new story, new characters, everything,\u201d she told the NY Post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCage is represented by WME, Stride Management and attorney Patrick Knapp and Banderas is represented by NuCo Media Group and Greenberg Glusker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The next season of True Detective is starting to take shape. 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