--- title: Video: 'True Detective' Meets 'Star Wars' in Opening Credit Mashup description: There’s even a side-by-side comparison of the original credits and the new version canonical: https://time.com/3992356/true-detective-star-wars-mashup/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-11T13:39:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:23:16.256Z og:title: 'True Detective' Meets 'Star Wars' in This Opening Credits Mashup og:description: There’s even a side-by-side comparison of the original credits and the new version og:url: https://time.com/3992356/true-detective-star-wars-mashup/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'True Detective' Meets 'Star Wars' in This Opening Credits Mashup twitter:description: There’s even a side-by-side comparison of the original credits and the new version twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # _True Detective_ Meets _Star Wars_ in This Mashup by [Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly Aug 11, 2015 1:39 PM UTC by [Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly Aug 11, 2015 1:39 PM UTC _True Detective_ season 2 may have ended last night, but the YouTube channel Star Wars Minute paid tribute to season 1 by blending the mood and music of the original opening credits with scenes from _Star Wars_. Dramatic silhouettes of Rust Cohle have been replaced with Boba Fett and the open fields of Louisiana with the canyons of the Death Star, all set to the Handsome Family’s “Far From Any Road.” There’s even a [side-by-side comparison](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA89nNDJ3pA) of the original _True Detective_ credits and the new _Star Wars_ version, so you can see all the little details and similarities between Marty Hart and Lobot. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/10/true-detective-star-wars-mashup) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3992356/true-detective-star-wars-mashup/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3992356/true-detective-star-wars-mashup/"},"headline":"True Detective Meets Star Wars in This Mashup","datePublished":"2015-08-11T13:39:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:23:16.256Z","description":"There’s even a side-by-side comparison of the original credits and the new version","url":"https://time.com/3992356/true-detective-star-wars-mashup/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Internet","movies","viral","Star Wars topic","YouTube","True Detective"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3992356/true-detective-star-wars-mashup/","name":"True Detective Meets Star Wars in This Mashup"}}]}] ```