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David Fincher Casts Doubt on the Future of “Mindhunter”
It’s been over a year since Netflix released the second season of “Mindhunter” and nearly a year since the show was put on “indefinite hold” in the wake of the second season’s arrival, leaving many to wonder if Netflix even has any plans on making a third season at this point. And even David Fincher, it seems, isn’t so sure that he and the team will be back.
Speaking with Vulture, Fincher explained that making a season of “Mindhunter” is both incredibly costly and incredibly time-consuming, which could spell the end of the series.
“We lived there for almost three years. Not year in and year out, but … probably six or seven months a year,” Fincher told the site. “Mindhunter was a lot for me. It’s a 90-hour workweek. It absorbs everything in your life. When I got done [with season 2], I was pretty exhausted, and I said, ‘I don’t know if I have it in me right now to break season three.’”
He continued, “For the viewership that it had, it was a very expensive show. We talked about, ‘Finish Mank and then see how you feel,’ but I honestly don’t think we’re going to be able to do it for less than I did season two. And on some level, you have to be realistic — dollars have to equal eyeballs.”
In other words, it sounds like not enough people were actually watching “Mindhunter” to justify the spend on another season, and in the world of television, well, that’s when a show ends.
Then again, we’ve also learned that anything is possible in the world of TV.
Based on the 2023 prep school thriller novel by American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis, creator Ryan Murphy’s “The Shards” is headed to FX and Hulu this Summer.
Look for “The Shards” to premiere on FX and Hulu on August 5 at 6 p.m. PT.
In the meantime, check out the brand new official poster below.
Igby Rigney (“The Fall of the House of Usher”), Homer Gere (“The Agency”), Graham Campbell, Kaia Gerber (Shell), Evan Rachel Wood (“Westworld”), Igby Rigney, Wes Bentley, and Hayes Warner star in the upcoming series “The Shards.”
Set in 1981 Los Angeles, the semi-autobiographical, dark coming-of-age tale follows a 17-year-old Ellis during his final year at the elite Buckley prep school. Upending the character’s world is the arrival of a mysterious new student, Robert Mallory, whose unsettling presence coincides with the activities of a serial killer known as The Trawler.
In the series, Igby Rigney will portray Ellis, and Graham Campbell will play Thom. Homer Gere, son of actor Richard Gere, has been cast as Robert Mallory. Frequent Murphy collaborator Max Winkler (“American Horror Story,“ “Grotesquerie”) is attached to direct.
The series is produced by 20th Television in association with Ryan Murphy Television.
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