True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto is writing a surprising crime book adaptation, with Matthew McConaughey set to star.

It's time for Matthew McConaughey and True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto to collaborate again. McConaughey is in talks to star in a movie centering on the detective character Mike Hammer for a project that has a script from Pizzolatto.

Matthew McConaughey and Nic Pizzolatto are getting the old True Detective gang back together, as Deadline reports that the duo—who starred in, and wrote, respectively, the landmark first season of the HBO hit—have signed on for a new pulp crime movie.