Nic Pizzolatto and David Milch Worked Together On True Detective Season 3 and Deadwood Movie

Indiewire reports that David Milch teamed up with Nic Pizzolatto to write True Detective season three after Pizzolatto helped with writing the Deadwood movie. Here are highlights of an interview with Pizzolatto:

On helping with the Deadwood movie: “We had gotten together because Scott is a producer on ‘Deadwood,’ and he had brought me in for a couple of weeks to sort of work for David on his ‘Deadwood’ film script. This was around when I was still figuring out the idea for ‘True Detective’ 3, and we had such a great time.”

On Milch giving his advice: “He turned me on to writing out loud, which I’d never done before, and I ended up writing most of the second half of the season out loud, which was a much more spiritually healthy thing to do than be alone in a room with a blank page. I knew he was going to have to go back and do ‘Deadwood’ and get that on its feet again, but I was just glad we had that time together. It’s something I’m going to remember and take with me for the rest of my life.”

On having fun with Deadwood: “There were times when I was doing one character and he was doing another, and we were like the dueling banjos or something in ‘Deliverance’. It was so special to me.”

On the divisive season two of True Detective: “I understood there was a lot of stuff in Season 2 that people hadn’t really wanted to see, based on Season 1 of ‘True Detective.’ But I’m very proud of the work everybody did. I just try to keep getting better at what I do and move forward. I think substantive criticism is a big part of that, so I tried not to shut myself off from any of it. Really, [I] just tried to get better and even narrow the focus of what is it I’m trying to do here — what is it we’re trying to do, because it’s a big team effort.”