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Acclaimed director David Fincher played an instrumental role in giving Netflix its first original hit with his work on House of Cards. He gave the platform another one in the form of Mindhunter before it was abandoned after two seasons, but fans hoping for some closure may get some if a plan he relayed to one of the show’s stars comes to fruition.
David Fincher made his directorial debut as the man at the helm of Alien 3, but he really came into his own when Se7en, The Game, and Fight Club dropped in the span of four years in the second half of the 1990s.
He was also responsible for 2007’s Zodiac, and a decade after that movie came out, he returned to the serial killer well with Mindhunter, the Netflix show that followed two fictional FBI agents tasked with compiling psychological profiles from real-life serial killers including Ed Kemper, Jerry Brudos, and David Berkowitz (a.k.a “The Son of Sam”).
The first season dropped in 2017 to critical acclaim and was followed by a second one that came out in 2019, and all signs pointed to the series eventually leading to the investigation that resulted in the arrest of Dennis Rader, the serial killer known as “BTK.”
Fincher eventually turned his attention to Mank (the Netflix movie about the screenwriter for Citizen Kane), and in 2020, the streaming giant announced it had released every Mindhunter actor from their contract while citing the showrunner’s decision to focus on other projects.
In 2023, Fincher offered a different take on what he positioned as a cancellation, saying Mindhunter hadn’t attracted a large enough audience to justify the amount of cash Netflix dropped on its production. However, it sounds like it could come back from the dead.
Holt McCallany, who portrayed FBI agent Bill Tench, recently sat down with CBR for an interview where he shed some light on a meeting he had with Fincher earlier this year concerning a plan to revive Mindhunter, saying:
“I had a meeting with David Fincher in his office a few months ago, and he said to me that there is a chance that it may come back as three two-hour movies, but I think it’s just a chance. I know there are writers that that are working, but you know, David has to be happy with scripts…
I would love it if it were to return. I think, like I said, you know, he gave me a little bit of hope when I had that meeting with him, but the sun, the moon, and the stars would all have to align.”
It’s safe to assume that meeting transpired before Fincher agreed to direct the sequel to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which would seemingly throw a bit of a hitch in those plans. With that said, it’s still in the realm of possibility.
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