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True Detective Script Was Sold On Nic Pizzolatto’s iPad

By Josh Hill

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True Detective still hasn’t started production its second season yet, but the wait is making folks nostalgic and the journey to season one is being revisited. 

HBO has a hit series on its hands with True Detective, but with the second season seemingly stalled in production, fans are going back to the start of the first season to track the trail that got us to where we are now.

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As it turns out, the True Detective journey from script to screen started with the simple tap of an iPad screen.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Pizzolatto sold the True Detective script while it was still on his iPad.

"It wasn’t until he pulled up the script for True Detective on his iPad during a meeting with Anonymous Content chief Steve Golin that the real whirlwind began. The management company pledged to help him lock up a director and big-name talent before shopping it to networks, ensuring an expedited time line, a bigger fee and, crucially, greater control. He was in."

It’s crazy to think of where we’ve come as a society that selling scripts by simply pulling them up on our iPads is the new way of passing a script around town. Some may get nostalgic for they days of Hollywood depicted even as recently as 1992’s The Player or 1999’s Bowfinger, but times have certainly changed.

This isn’t to say that True Detective wouldn’t have gotten made if Pizzolatto hadn’t have pulled it up on his iPad, but the easy access to scripts like that likely made the deal get done a lot quicker than it otherwise might have.

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