Jodie Foster weighs in on True Detective creator's criticism of Night Country

True Detective: Night Country star Jodie Foster has said her piece on the Nic Pizzolatto situation.

Pizzolatto is the creator of HBO's doomy anthology show, which originally kicked off in 2014 with the celebrated central duo of Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. For three seasons (the second brought in Colin Farrell while Mahershala Ali lead the third), Pizzolatto wrote or co-wrote each of the episodes before ultimately stepping away for this year's fourth, subtitled Night Country and set in Alaska.

In came new showrunner Issa López, with Pizzolatto taking an executive producer's credit. However, as Night Country rolled out across our screens, it became clear that the former boss was bitter, reposting social media criticisms from fans and even going as far to suggest that the carefully placed links to his first season were "so stupid".

He even replied to one naysayer: "I certainly did not have any input on this story or anything else. Can't blame me."

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During a recent interview with NME, Foster, who plays Liz Danvers, was asked about Pizzolatto distancing himself from the new iteration of True Detective. "Well, he didn't [have any input]. No, he really didn't," she replied.

"Sometimes you get, like, one little comment and then it suddenly mushrooms into this huge thing. For us, it's kind of a good thing because it gets people talking about the show. But honestly, we've never met him so it wasn't like he ever had a conversation with us. He was gone from True Detective long before Issa was brought in."

Meanwhile, López herself addressed her predecessor's behaviour while speaking to Vulture.

"I believe that every storyteller has a very specific, peculiar, and unique relation to the stories they create, and whatever his reactions are, he's entitled to them. That's his prerogative," she noted.

"I wrote this with profound love for the work he made and love for the people that loved it. And it is a reinvention, and it is different, and it's done with the idea of sitting down around the fire, and [let's] have some fun and have some feelings and have some thoughts. And anybody that wants to join is welcome."

True Detective will return for a fifth season on NOW in the UK.

Watch: True Detective: Night Country trailer