MINDHUNTER Season 2 Director Andrew Dominik Says Season 3 Would Have Taken the FBI Agents to Hollywood
Mindhunter has been a buzzed-about show ever since its creation in 2017. The series was based on the 1996 book Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit, which followed the true story of how this branch of the FBI was established, by interviewing some of the worst serial killers in history. Fans loved the first two seasons of the gritty historical crime drama, but the show’s main director, David Fincher (Se7en, Zodiac), explained that the show was too physically and mentally consuming and taxing to go on at this time.
Fans are always looking for hints that the show might be returning, as Fincher said he had more seasons laid out in his mind, but at this point, nothing is for sure. However, Andrew Dominik, director on Season 2 of the series, recently sat down with Collider to explain what fans could have expected from Season 3 of the series. He said:
"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."
He went on to talk about how he got involved in the series, saying:
"I probably got involved in it for the same reason that you liked it, right. I really loved it. And I knew David and I called him up, and he was like, "Do you want to do the Manson episode?" ... I mean, how can you say no to the Charles Manson episode? ... I got to work on that basically because I knew David, and it was a really good experience. It was very kind of collegial. Usually directing's kind of a lonely job in a way because you're the one always saying no, and you're the one that's in charge of everything. Everybody's having to deal with you, and you have to stay responsible. You can't sort of fuck around the way everybody else on a movie can. So it was really nice to do something with Fincher because it was like having a director pal, and he would shoot pieces of my episode, and I'd shoot little bits of his episode. It's always really interesting to be inside somebody else's process."
Mindhunter is one of the greatest shows ever made in its genre. It’s so well-done with a mix of intensity, history, and human stories that just made fans connect to it in a deep way. I really hope that Fincher is able to get back to it one day and finish the stories they had in store.