‘True Detective’ director Cary Fukunaga says it was “disheartening” working with writer Nic Pizzolato
True Detective‘s writer and creator Nic Pizzolatto, saying that their time working together on the show quickly became “disheartening”.Fukunaga directed the first season of the show, which aired in 2014, while Pizzolato worked as showrunner. On-set tensions between the two have been well-documented in the time since.Now, however, Fukunaga has elaborated on the situation, telling The Hollywood Reporter: “The show was presented to me in the way we pitched it around town — as an independent film made into television. “The writer and director are a team.