True Detective: 10 Dream Castings For Season 4

10. Sam Rockwell And Christopher Walken

If you like True Detective, you should really consider watching Seven Psychopaths. It’s just as dark, has the same noirish vibes, but has more comedy thrown in there too. It’s Martin McDonagh’s least famous film, but it can kick it with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and In Bruges nonetheless.

The cast of Seven Psychopaths includes True Detective alumni Colin Farrell and Woody Harrelson, as well as Rockwell and Walken, so the True Detective suitability is baked into the pairing.

Walken has a dark, mysterious edge to every one of his roles, something in his voice and mannerisms that makes him both compelling and disconcerting. Rockwell, meanwhile, is a relative chameleon, able to embody a multitude of roles but still somehow make us root for him.

Given Walken’s age, if Pizzolatto was to do a time jump again we might only see him in the earliest era, giving us a new plot strand as Rockwell is left to figure out the case alone. With Walken’s mysterious vibes and Rockwell often playing loners, these two together could create a powerful dynamic in the first era that fades into a more ethereal connection post time jump as Rockwell deals with the hole left by his mentor.