It’s been six years since the second — and thus far last — season of “Mindhunter” hit Netflix. The ’70s-set series followed FBI’s then-burgeoning behavioral science unit and starred Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, and Anna Torv as members of said unit. Created and guided by David Fincher, the show enjoyed enthusiastic reviews and a devoted fan base. Released in the height of the true crime-craze, real-life murders and murderers were depicted, including Charles Manson and David Berkowitz.
Now, McCallany teased that there might be hope for “Mindhunter” to have life once again, but not as a television series. “I had a meeting with David Fincher in his office a few months ago,” he said during a recent interview with CBR, “…there is a chance that [the show] may come back as three two-hour movies.”
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McCallany underlined that this was a “chance,” and added, “I know there are writers that that are working, but you know, David has to be happy with scripts.”
Fincher has made cryptic — and seemingly final — comments on the show’s future on several occasions, including in 2020 and 2023. He told Le Journal du Dimanche, “I’m 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.”
In 2021, one of the series’ directors, Academy Award-winner Asif Kapadia, posted on the platform then known as Twitter, “Audiences around the world need let @netflix know that there is a real interest & demand for Season 3 of @MINDHUNTER_ if you make enough noise, It might actually happen…. #DavidFincher #mindhunter.”
Fincher has spoken in the past of the difficulty of producing a series. In 2020, he said in a Vulture interview that “Mindhunter” was “a lot” for him to handle, since the Pittsburgh-shot series required several grueling production months for each season. “We had done the first season of ‘Mindhunter’ without a showrunner, with me pinch-hitting on a week-by-week basis. We started getting scripts for the second season, and I ended up looking at what was written and deciding I didn’t like any of it. So we tossed it and started over,” he related.
The third season, had it come to fruition, was to have been set in Los Angeles, and include collaborations with directors Michael Mann and the late Jonathan Demme.
“And it was all going to be about profiling making it into the sort of zeitgeist, the public consciousness,” Season 2 Director Andrew Dominik told Collider in 2022. “It would’ve been… that was the season everyone was really waiting for to do, with when they sort of get out of the basement and start.”
