Mark Ruffalo Teases Next Project ‘Task’ Could Cross Over With ‘Mare Of Easttown’: “Those Two Might Run Into Each Other”

Mark Ruffalo has a new project coming down the pipeline that just may resurrect one of our favorite shows of the last few years.

Ruffalo will be starring in Task, a new HBO miniseries from Mare of Easttown creator Brad Ingelsby. The show will center on Ruffalo as a “complicated” FBI agent leading a special task force.

“He’s badly damaged but fighting for good,” Ruffalo recently told Deadline.

He also revealed that the show is set in Philadelphia in the “same universe” as Mare of Easttown. Could that mean what we think it does?

“At some point those two might run into each other in the future, that’s what they’re saying. It’s not set, nothing’s set,” he teased.

Kate Winslet nabbed an Emmy in 2021 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie when the critically acclaimed Mare of Easttown received a whopping 17 nominations. She has expressed interest in returning to the limited series for another season, though that possibility has been shut down for the time being. With Ingelsby involved, we could see more of Winslet’s troubled homicide detective.

Ingelsby has said before that he would be open to doing another season of Mare of Easttown, though it is a limited series.

“If we can crack a story that is as great [as Season 1] and that would do justice to the characters and carry on the story in a way that was organic and yet surprising, I would love to do it,” Ingelsby told TVLine. “I just don’t know what the story is. That’s the issue right now.”

Winslet has also said she “would absolutely love to play Mare again.”

“I miss her. I really do. It’s the strangest thing. I feel like I’m in mourning. It was an absolutely wonderful role,” she told TVLine. “There’s something very addictive about Mare, because she’s so outrageous and lovable and brilliant and real, you know? I loved playing her.”

According to Ruffalo, any possible Task/Mare of Easttown crossover appears to be in the very early stages. So, fingers crossed!

Task will star Emilia Jones, Raúl Castillo, Thuso Mbedu, Sam Keeley, Fabien Frankel, and more. The series will follow Ruffalo’s FBI detective as he solves a string of robberies. Filming will reportedly begin in March.