Last February, in an interview with Le Journal Du Dimance, David Fincher had, sadly, confirmed that his brilliant Netflix series “Mindhunter” would not be getting renewed for 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”.
Now, one of the “Mindhunter” leads, Holt McCallany, via Awards Daily, is teasing us about Fincher potentially walking back on his previous comments …
I’ve heard that David’s thought about it. I’m not saying it’s going to come back. But what I am saying is that if it comes back, I’m coming back with it. You can take that to the bank, but it’ll depend on what David wants to do […] just even that he would think about it is a hopeful sign.
The series very much felt like primo Fincher. From the cinematography to the atmosphere and, really, the entire mise-en-scene, “Mindhunter” is well worth a look if you haven’t caught up with it yet.
”Mindhunter” 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” has built up a mass cult following in the last few years. There have even been fan petitions circulating to convince Netflix/Fincher 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.
So, will a third season of “Mindhunter” be Fincher’s next project? Jeff Sneider had reported last year that the filmmaker might actually be directing a film version of Netflix’s ultra popular “Squid Game,” and that he was close to signing on to that project.