Mindhunter Director Reveals Where Season 3 Would Have Gone

Mindhunter episode director Andrew Dominik has peeled back the curtain on where Season 3 would have gone if the series had not have been put on “indefinite hold.”

Dominik recently gave Collider some insight into what Mindhunter’s third season would have been about if it had ever come to fruition. He revealed the plot would have sent the show’s FBI profilers to Hollywood where they would have met up with a couple of high-profile filmmakers to share their findings, but sadly the future of the Netflix drama is still in doubt.

“What they were going to do with Season 3 was they were going to go [to] Hollywood,” Dominik shared. “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.”

Dominik admitted that the shelved third season of Mindhunter was the one “everyone was really waiting for to do,” as it was going to take a step in a new direction by uprooting the FBI Behavioral Science Unit team from their basement office to transport them to Tinseltown, however, these ambitious storyline plans would inevitably present a financial challenge.

Mindhunter producer and director David Fincher previously explained that the process of making the Netflix series was exhausting and that for the viewership the show had, it was too expensive — probably too expensive for a third season to receive a green light, especially if the next chapter required a bigger budget than the last season.

Between the exhaustion and financial challenge of a possible third season, Fincher seemed to believe that the third season of Mindhunter wasn’t on the cards, at least for now. This didn’t come as a major surprise either, as cast members Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, and Anna Torv were released from their respective contracts with Netflix at the beginning of 2020.

The much-liked crime drama ended on a cliffhanger in 2019, with several open-ended plot threads left hanging. Though, according to IGN’s review of Mindhunter Season 2, it remained “a compelling and impeccably shot crime thriller” that lent “fascinating insight into the minds of infamous serial killers and the men and woman who hunt them for a living.”

Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.

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