David Fincher has confirmed that Netflix will not be moving forward with its serial killer crime series Mindhunter season 3. While fans, like me, were hoping we’d get a third season, Fincher recently opened up about the show in an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche, saying:
“I’m very proud of the first two seasons, but it’s a particularly expensive series and, in Netflix’s eyes, we haven’t attracted a large enough audience to justify such an investment.”
He went on to add, “I don’t blame them, they took risks to launch the series.” Over the past couple of years, Fincher has offered hope that the series will continue, but he’s also let fans know that it most likely wouldn’t happen, which is where we stand.
Combining true crime and fiction, the series is based on the 1995 book Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit, written by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker. The series is set in the 1970s and follows FBI agents Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) as they create a unit that studies convicted serial killers as a way of trying to determine what, if anything, makes one.
Over the course of the show’s first two seasons, the team looked into killers such as Ed Kemper (Cameron Britton), Jerry Brudos (Happy Anderson), Wayne Williams (Christopher Livingston) and Charles Manson (Damon Herriman).
In the process, the series was also building the story of BTK, the conclusion of which we will never get to see. As for what season 3 might have entailed, the series director Andrew Dominic He explained, “What they were going to do with season 3 was they were going to walk away [to] Hollywood. So one of them would be friends with Jonathan Demme and the other with Michael Mann. And it would have been a question of profiling it, transforming it into a sort of zeitgeist, the public conscience. It was going to be… That was the season that everyone was really waiting to do, with when they come out of the basement and get going.”
I would have loved to see it! It’s very disappointing that the series is officially over. Oh well, at least we have two great seasons!
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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