HBO’s True Detective franchise has always prided itself on bringing in big-name talent to flesh out its various highly flawed crime solvers, with a frankly ludicrous number of current and future Oscar nominees and winners cycling through its anthology show seasons.

Nicolas Cage is deep in talks to star in True Detective season 5 - the next iteration of the moody crime drama. The Oscar winner is up for an as-yet-unknown role in the anthology drama, but will presumably play the law enforcement officer at the center of another mystery thriller.

The celebrated Hollywood actor might just be joining a series that's starred everyone from Jodie Foster to Matthew McConaughey.