David Fincher: “One way or another, you have to think that dollars have to equal eyes watching the show.”
David Fincher has bad news for fans of ‘Mindhunter’, Netflix’s true-crime thriller, that explores the serial killers that haunted the last decades of the 20th century.
The Serie, despite having released 2 seasons on the platform streamingofficially will not have a new batch of episodes.
Fincher, who was executive producer of the series and came to direct 7 of its episodes, has admitted that fiction became “too expensive” for Netflix.
“I am very proud of the first two seasons, but it is a particularly expensive series andAs far as Netflix is ​​concerned, we were not able to attract an audience level that justified such an investment,” Fincher commented to Le Journal du Dimanche. “I don’t blame them, they already took risks distributing the series.“
The series is based on the book ‘Mindhunter: Cazador de Mentes’, written by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker. In 2017, its first season came to Netflix and introduced us to two FBI agents (played by Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany), on their mission to analyze criminal profiles, in the 1970s.
The second season premiered in 2019, and a year later, in 2020, the three leading actors, Groff, McCallany and Anna Torv, were released from their contracts with the platform due to a “indefinite rest” in the production. Was this a death foretold? It seems that it has ended up being that way.
The reasons for the cancellationor so Fincher explained it, They were due to a mix between the high budgets of the project and the low audiences that ‘Mindhunter’ was receiving. The project ended up being “a lot” for him.
“We did the first season of ‘Mindhunter’ without showrunner. I was the one who helped week after week,” the director told vulture in 2020. “We started receiving the scripts for the second season and I didn’t like anything that had been written. We throw it away and start again.”
The ‘Lost’ director kept saying, “One way or another, you have to think that dollars have to equal eyes watching the show.”
It is true that a third season was planned to develop. The director of the second season, Andrew Dominic was talking with Collider about the new chapters and stated that the series would be located in Los Angeles.
“It was going to revolve around profiling and its introduction into the public consciousness. That was what everyone expected from the series, which get out of your office and reach out to people.“
However, It seems that it will not be possible to know how the career of the FBI agents in their fight against serial crime will continue. However, the first two seasons will always be available for true-crime fans. Loaded with aesthetic and plot quality, heThe episodes of the first batches continue to work the same as the first day (audiences apart).
‘Mindhunter’ has its two seasons available on the Netflix catalog.
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