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‘True Detective’ director’s new film almost too real

Cary Fukunaga — the Emmy-winning director behind HBO’s edgy series “True Detective” — went a step further for his follow-up film project, “Beasts of No Nation.”

The movie is based on Uzodinma Iweala’s novel about a child who’s recruited by guerrilla soldiers to fight in West Africa, and Fukunaga cast real former militia members while shooting in Ghana.

“The amount of former combatants I met who had killed . . . and were living completely normal lives was astounding,” he reveals in the new issue of Man of the World magazine.

Fukunaga added that the movie, starring Idris Elba, was shot in “the most difficult place I’ve ever made a film . . . to the point that to be surprised every day about the stuff that was happening wasn’t surprising.”

He’s next directing an adaptation of Stephen King’s “It.”

The next season of “True Detective” will being helmed by “Fast & Furious” action guru Justin Lin.