Many fans were disappointed to learn that Emmy winning director Cary Fukunaga will not be returning for the second season of HBO's True Detective.

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Although there have been rumors that Fukunaga clashed with series creator Nic Pizzolatto on set, the director's official stance on the matter is that directing a full season for the HBO series had been a big commitment he just wasn't ready to make this time around. Even if Fukunaga did want to take a go at this year's season of the hit crime drama, he's far too busy to make it happen.

In an interview with Page Six on Wednesday the director talked about his first gig since True Detective and why it's the most difficult project he's ever worked on. 

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Based on the novel by Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation is a story about children recruited as soldiers in West Africa and while filming in Ghana Fukunaga employed real-life former members of the militia as part of his cast. "The amount of former combatants I met who had killed… and were living completely normal lives was astounding," stated Fukunaga.

"[It was] the most difficult place I've ever made a film…" he added. "To the point that to be surprised every day about the stuff that was happening wasn't surprising at all."

Even with the brutal shoot, Fukunaga isn't curbing his ambition. Next up the director will take on a new adaptation of Stephen King's It, which follows a group of friends haunted by a murderous clown.

Fukunaga garnered much success from his time with True Detective, earning the series its only major Emmy win in 2014. Unlike season 1, which was directed entirely by Fukunaga, the new season will be tackled by half a dozen different directors, starting with Justin Lin of Fast and Furious fame.

Starring Colin Farrell (Minority Report, Saving Mr. Banks) and Vince Vaughn (Wedding Crashers, Into the Wild), the program's second installment will follow crime and government corruption in the state of California.

True Detective will return for a second season on HBO mid-2015.

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