David Cronenberg said he turned down an offer to direct the first episode of True Detective Season Two, citing a poor script during an interview at the Reykjavik International Film Festival, Indiewire reports.
While discussing television's rise as a serious, viable medium for creative filmmaking, Cronenberg said: "The heat is in TV. Last year, I was approached to direct the first episode of the second season of True Detective. I considered it, but I thought that the script was bad, so I didn’t do it. In TV, the director is just a traffic cop,
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While discussing television's rise as a serious, viable medium for creative filmmaking, Cronenberg said: "The heat is in TV. Last year, I was approached to direct the first episode of the second season of True Detective. I considered it, but I thought that the script was bad, so I didn’t do it. In TV, the director is just a traffic cop,