The No Time to Die director fills in some gaps surrounding his exits from True Detective and It.
“The writer and director are a team.
It was disheartening because it didn’t feel like the partnership was fair.”
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in ‘True Detective’; A still from the film ‘It’.Michele K. Short/HBO; Warner Bros. Pictures
Fukunaga won the Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Emmy for season 1 ofTrue Detectivein 2014.
“Nic is a really good writer, but I do think he needs to be edited down.
We differed on tone and taste.”
Cary Fukunaga.Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images
Pizzolatto actually addressed the reports of drama between the two men in his ownTHRcover storyback in Aug. 2014.
“Cary and I worked together really smoothly,” he said, at the time.
“There was never any contention.
(Fukunaga still ended up with a screenwriting credit onIt.)
I wanted to do a drama with horror elements, more likeThe Shining.
I think they wanted to do something more [pure horror] likeAnnabelle[from theConjuringfilms].
That was essentially the disconnect.”
Representatives for Pizzolatto and New Line didn’t immediately respond to EW’s requests for comment.
