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Redeemer: McConaughey Reteams With True Detective Creator for New Series

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True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto has moved his overall deal from HBO to Fox 21, and his first order of business is to reunite with Matthew McConaughey for an FX series entitled Redeemer.

Inspired by the Patrick Colman novel The ChurchgoerRedeemer will center on McConaughey as a former minister, now working as a security guard, who finds himself on a search for a missing Texas woman. However, that search leads him to a major criminal conspiracy as his past and present collide. McConaughey, who also signed a first-look deal with FX, will executive produce the series with Pizzolatto.

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"We are thrilled to begin our creative partnership with Nic Pizzolatto and Matthew McConaughey on Redeemer, who are back together for the first time since the first season of HBO’s True Detective," FX Entertainment President Eric Schrier said. "We’re also incredibly excited about our overall deal with Nic and look forward to developing new projects with him and our partners Fox 21 Television Studios, and we’re equally excited to be developing projects with Matthew through his first-look deal with FXP."

"From the moment we all saw True Detective, we’ve been dying to work with Nic," Fox 21 President Bert Salke, who's also a producer on Redeemer, added. "The fact that we get to do this together with our FXP cousins is a best-case scenario. I don’t think there are a lot of writers in town right now who are writing with Nic’s force and emotion. It’s why we’re beyond excited about Nic’s project with Matthew, which is a big priority for both companies."

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Created by Nic Pizzolatto, Redeemer stars Matthew McConaughey. At the time of this writing, the project is under a script-to-series order with no confirmed premiere date.

(via THR)

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