COLIN FARREL and Vince Vaughn will star in the second season of HBO’s “True Detective.” The eight-episode drama series will begin production in California this fall, the premium cable channel said.

    Farrell will play a compromised detective, Ray, who is divided between his loyalty to his bosses in a corrupt police department and a mobster with a hold over him.

    Vaughn co-stars as Frank, a criminal whose move into legitimate business is disrupted by a business partner’s murder.

    HBO had a critically acclaimed hit with the first season of “True Detective,” which starred the Emmy-nominated Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.

    They played former Louisiana State Police detectives interrogated in 2012 about a homicide case they worked on, in flashback, in 1995.

    “True Detective” ended up losing the best drama Emmy to “Breaking Bad.”(SD-Agencies)