While HBO would only say that True Detective casting news would likely emerge next week—and Nic Pizzolatto only confirming that next year would find four pairs of eyes wearily contemplating the California shoreline—both Deadline and The Wrap are already confidently reporting that Colin Farrell is in talks to star in the show’s second season, while The Wrap also throws Taylor Kitsch and Garrett Hedlund into the mix. As for Farrell, The Wrap says Farrell fulfills the network’s hopes to once again land a “true movie star, someone who could play rugged and gritty.” Kitsch, meanwhile, is reportedly edging out Hedlund for the younger male lead. Fittingly for the show, both actors are all too familiar with man’s capacity for cruelty, based on the responses to A Winter’s Tale and John Carter.