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. Skydance has acquired rights to the Mike Hammer property, with the character having originated in a 1947 novel by author Mickey Spillane and continued after Spillane’s death in books by Max Allan Collins.
Producers include Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger, alongside Guymon Casady, Benjamin Forkner and Ken F. Levin. Collins is an executive producer, while Jane Spillane co-produces.
Carin Sage oversees the film for Skydance.
McConaughey is represented by WME and Yorn Levine. Pizzolatto is repped by WME, Gillett Management and Eric Brooks of Goodman Genow.
Deadline was first to report on the project.
More to come.