Casting for True Detective's second season on HBO is currently underway, if not already completed. There's no word yet as to who will be staring on the hit crime drama, but potential spoilers have begun to emerge recently teasing out the upcoming season's plot.

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Series creator and writer Nick Pizzolatto has shut down a number of True Detective rumors over the last few months, but so far he hasn't said a word about the recent Indiewire claim that the show will be taking on a Chinatown feel.

Pizzolatto has openly admitted to a California setting, switching things up from the drama's Louisiana-based plot from last season.

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According to Indiewire on July 17, the new season will share some similarities with the 1974 classic film Chinatown, which was directed by Roman Polanski and starred Jack Nicholson. Following the murder of a California City manager, the season will follow corruption, a trail of federal money, and a mystery involving the transportation system, all of which can be tied back to the opening murder.

The mid-July claim also suggests that the drama will be getting four leads this season, contradicting Pizolatto's early claims of one or three. Two weeks in now and Pizzolatto has yet to rebuke the claim, uncharacteristic for the writer, suggesting perhaps that there may be some truth to it after all.

True Detective returns to HBO for its second season in early 2015.

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