Since he’s being given the honorary Cesar award this year, David Fincher is starting to make the media rounds in France.
In an interview with Le Journal Du Dimance, Fincher has, sadly, confirmed that his brilliant Netflix series “Mindhunter” will not be getting a third season:
“I am very proud of the first two seasons. But it's a particularly expensive series and, in the eyes of Netflix, we haven't attracted a large enough audience to justify such an investment. I don't blame them, they took risks to launch the series, they gave me the means to make my dream film “Mank” and they allowed me to venture down new paths with “The Killer”.
The series very much felt like a Fincher movie. From the cinematography to the atmosphere, really, the entire mise-en-scene, “Mindhunter” is well worth a look if you haven’t caught up with it yet.
The series focused on agents Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff), Bill Tench (Holt McCallany), and psychologist Dr. Wendy Carr (Anna Torv) who delved into the inner workings and minds of some of the worst murderers in history, in order to create a profile of how to identify serial killers.
Puzzling, creative, intriguing, sharp, and positively dripping in Fincher DNA, “Mindhunter” will continue to build up a cult following in the years to come. Maybe a fan petition is in order to convince Netflix to bring it back.
Fincher directed the first three episodes of the second season, Andrew Dominik and Carl Franklin shared directing duties for the other six.
His reasoning is simple: Cregger sees himself first and foremost as a writer, and he has little interest in shaping stories around the predetermined “data points” that come with established IP.