David Fincher Confirms MINDHUNTER Season 3 is Not Going To Happen
David Fincher has confirmed that Netflix will not be moving forward with its serial killer crime series Mindhunter season 3. While fans, like myself, have been hoping that 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 the eyes of Netflix, 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 did offer hope that the series would continue, but he also has let fans know that it most likely wouldn’t happen, and that’s where we’re at.
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 70s and it follows FBI agents Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) as they set up a unit that studies convicted serial killers as a way to try and determine what, if anything, makes one.
Over the course of the first two seasons of the show, the team examined 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 up the story of BTK, the conclusion of which we’ll never get to see. As for what Season 3 might have entailed, series director Andrew Dominik Explained: "What they were going to do with Season 3 was they were going to go [to] Hollywood. So one of them was going to be hooking up with Jonathan Demme and the other one was going to be hooking up with Michael Mann. And it was all going to be about profiling making it into the sort of zeitgeist, the public consciousness. 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."
I would have liked to see that! It’s very disappointing that the series is officially over. Oh well, at least we got two great seasons!