Fans were devastated when Netflix cancelled their series Mindhunter. Although reasons for the show’s abandonment are disappointing for viewers of the show, fans were certainly enjoying the series and eagerly wanted more. Of course, it’s been unclear what direction the series would have went on for its third season. Now the second season’s director, Andrew Dominik, has opened up about their plans for Mindhunter Season 3.
As revealed in an interview with Collider, it appears that the third season for the show would’ve actually taken place in Hollywood. It would’ve shown “profiling making it into the sort of zeitgeist, the public consciousness.” This definitely sounds as though the series would’ve moved into some exciting territories.
Here’s what he had to say in full about the cancelled plans for Mindhunter Season 3:
“What they were going to do with Season 3 was they were going to go [to] Hollywood,” he explained. “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.”
For those that are unfamiliar with the referenced directors, Jonathan Demme directed the notorious film The Silence of the Lambs with actor Anthony Hopkins. Michael Mann directed its underrated predecessor, however, titled Manhunter (which was an adaptation of Red Dragon.) So while the timeline likely wouldn’t have dealt directly with the production of these films, it still would’ve been an exciting look at Hollywood and how the public was beginning to understand profiling.
Of course, the long-term plans for the series would’ve branched off much further than that. As teased in the original two seasons, the show was gradually building up the presence of Dennis Rader aka the BTK Killer. With the cancellation of Mindhunter, it looks like fans are going to be missing out on quite a bit.