Fans of Netflix true crime series Mindhunter have been in limbo since 2020, when show creator David Fincher gave a pessimistic interview about a possible third season. But according to star Holt McCallany, the series based on the real-life origins of the FBI’s profiling program might eventually resume production—but this time, it would be a series of movies instead of a TV show.
In the series, McCallany played FBI special agent Bill Tench, a character loosely based on the late agent, profiler, and author Robert K. Ressler. He was joined by Broadway star Jonathan Groff as Holden Ford, the fictional counterpoint to Ressler colleague John E. Douglas and Anna Torv, whose Dr. Wendy Carr was based on researcher Ann Burgess.
In the years since the show went on hold, all three have said that they’re regularly asked about the possibility of a third Mindhunter season—but so far, no news has emerged. But in an interview with CBR, McCallany says “I had a meeting with David Fincher in his office a few months ago,” during which he learned “there is a chance that [Mindhunter] may come back as three two-hour movies.”
“I think it’s just a chance,” McCallany—who also worked with Fincher on 1999’s Fight Club— warned, noting the director’s notorious perfectionism. “I know there are writers that that are working, but you know, David has to be happy with scripts.”
There’s also the time commitment for the series, which Fincher has previously said is immense. “It’s a 90-hour workweek. It absorbs everything in your life,” Fincher said in 2020. “When I got done, I was pretty exhausted, and I said, ‘I don’t know if I have it in me right now to break season three.’”
According to McCallany, “the sun, the moon, and the stars would all have to align” for the profiling team—who we last saw in the jailhouse with Charles Manson, Ed Kemper, and David Berkowitz (also known as the Son of Sam), as well as on the ground investigating the Atlanta child murders—to reunite. The options on the cast expired five years ago, and Fincher (speaking of Manson!)‚ is reportedly slated to direct the sequel to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood.
But steadfast McCallany is still holding out hope. The movies—like the series—would be for Netflix, he says, a platform that in 2020 said that the show might return “in five years.”
“So I think that in terms of dates and logistics, it could all be worked out,” McCallany says. “But it has to do, you know, with David really having the time and the inclination and being happy, you know, with the material. And, you know, that’s a big question mark.”
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