A new untitled sports drama series from Nic Pizzolatto (“True Detective”) has landed at Netflix after a heated bidding war, as the streaming project from Skydance Sports has two high-profile leads ironing out deals with Matthew McConaughey (“The Lost Bus”) and “Yellowstone” breakout Cole Hauser.
This news about the developing streaming series was first revealed by The Hollywood Reporter, as they add that Netflix edged out other bids from fellow streamers such as Amazon and Apple.
Oddly enough, who wasn’t in the mix for bidding on the project was HBO. Not entirely shocking after Pizzlatto went out of his way to publicly trash the last season of “True Detective“ after he was pushed out over creative differences and replaced.
Details are scarce for the series, for the moment, but the two are set to play brothers in the sports show.
Of course, McConaughey and Pizzolatto previously worked together on the first season of HBO’s acclaimed serial killer thriller series “True Detective,” but it’s also a reunion between the two actors, who early in their Hollywood careers appeared alongside each other in Richard Linklater‘s Austin-set coming-of-age comedy “Dazed & Confused.”
There is also a “Yellowstone” connection here, as Matthew McConaughey was once courted to star in a “Yellowstone” spinoff series for creator Taylor Sheridan, but the TV guru decided to pivot to a different spinoff with “The Dutton Ranch,” starring Hauser and Kelly Reilly (there is also “Y: Marshals” starring Luke Grimes and Logan-Marshall Green).
Another project in the works from Pizzolatto and Skydance (recently merged with Paramount) that has the involvement of McConaughey is a new feature adaptation of the “Mike Hammer“ noir detective novels from author Mickey Spillane, with the actor playing the hardboiled private detective.
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