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Antonio Banderas Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images Less than a week after Nicolas Cage proclaimed that he’s starring in True Detective Season 5, HBO has confirmed the casting while adding that Antonio Banderas will also co-star.
HBO revealed the casting news in a teaser that revisited True Detective’s past seasons tandems — Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn, etc. — before announcing Cage and Banderas as the upcoming duo.
Cage. Banderas. Season 5 of #TrueDetective starts production in 2027. pic.twitter.com/dLnG9hfCMo
— HBO Max (@hbomax) October 16, 2026
No other plot details about the fifth season were revealed other than the two characters’ names: Cage will play Henry Logan and Banderas will play Rai Garcia. As previously reported, the upcoming season will take place in Jamaica Bay, New York — far from Alaska’s perpetual nighttime in Season 4 — and will begin filming in 2027.
Cage himself perhaps hastened HBO’s announcement when he broke news at a Comic-Con panel last weekend about his involvement. “I think I’m probably gonna do another season of television. I think I might do a season of True Detective,” Cage said. “That’s okay that I’m the first to announce that, right?”
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