‘Mindhunter’ Could Return as a Movie Trilogy… if David Fincher is ‘Happy With the Scripts’

It’s been six years since nan 2nd — and frankincense acold past — season of “Mindhunter” deed Netflix. The ’70s-set bid followed FBI’s then-burgeoning behavioral subject unit and starred Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, and Anna Torv arsenic members of said unit. Created and guided by David Fincher, nan show enjoyed enthusiastic reviews and a devoted instrumentality base. Released successful nan tallness of nan existent crime-craze, real-life murders and murderers were depicted, including Charles Manson and David Berkowitz.

Now, McCallany teased that location mightiness beryllium dream for “Mindhunter” to person life erstwhile again, but not arsenic a tv series. “I had a gathering pinch David Fincher successful his agency a fewer months ago,” he said during a caller question and reply pinch CBR, “…there is simply a chance that [the show] whitethorn travel backmost arsenic 3 two-hour movies.”

McCallany underlined that this was a “chance,” and added, “I cognize location are writers that that are working, but you know, David has to beryllium happy pinch scripts.”

Fincher has made cryptic — and seemingly last — comments connected nan show’s early connected respective occasions, including successful 2020 and 2023. He told Le Journal du Dimanche, “I’m very proud of nan first 2 seasons, but it’s a peculiarly costly bid and, successful nan eyes of Netflix, we haven’t attracted a ample capable assemblage to warrant specified an investment.”

In 2021, 1 of nan series’ directors, Academy Award-winner Asif Kapadia, posted connected nan level past known arsenic Twitter, “Audiences astir nan world request fto @netflix cognize that location is simply a existent liking & request for Season 3 of @MINDHUNTER_ if you make capable noise, It mightiness really happen…. #DavidFincher #mindhunter.”

Fincher has spoken successful nan past of nan trouble of producing a series. In 2020, he said successful a Vulture question and reply that “Mindhunter” was “a lot” for him to handle, since nan Pittsburgh-shot bid required respective grueling accumulation months for each season. “We had done nan first play of ‘Mindhunter’ without a showrunner, pinch maine pinch-hitting connected a week-by-week basis. We started getting scripts for nan 2nd season, and I ended up looking astatine what was written and deciding I didn’t for illustration immoderate of it. So we tossed it and started over,” he related.

The 3rd season, had it travel to fruition, was to person been set successful Los Angeles, and see collaborations pinch board Michael Mann and nan precocious Jonathan Demme.

“And it was each going to beryllium astir profiling making it into nan benignant of zeitgeist, nan nationalist consciousness,” Season 2 Director Andrew Dominik told Collider successful 2022. “It would’ve been… that was nan play everyone was really waiting for to do, pinch erstwhile they benignant of get retired of nan basement and start.”