Though the third season of David Fincher’s serial killer series “Mindhunter” is almost certainly never going to happen, those involved have talked about what might have been had Netflix given the critically acclaimed drama another shot.
The series, about a group at the FBI that developed the agency’s profiling methods as they interviewed mass murderers, had Fincher serving as showrunner throughout along with directing seven of its nineteen episodes.
“Chopper” and “The Assassination of Jesse James” director Andrew Dominik tackled two episodes in the show’s second season and recently spoke with Collider about where the show was planning to go in its third season had it gone forward.
He reveals the series would’ve seen Jonathan Groff’s Ford and Holt McCallany’s Tench head to Hollywood where they would deal with the two filmmakers behind the two earliest movies involving the character of Hannibal Lecter from the Thomas Harris novels – Michael Mann’s “Manhunter” and Jonathan Demme’s “The Silence of the Lambs”:
“What they were going to do with season three 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.”
The respective films helped lead to the rise of gritty crime storytelling influenced by real cases and real FBI operational techniques. The first two seasons of “Mindhunter” remain available on Netflix worldwide.
