Mindhunter season 2 directors: David Fincher returns plus Andrew Dominik and Carl Franklin
The follow-up season will focus on the Atlanta child murders of the late 1970s and early 80s
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Your support makes all the difference.David Fincher is back to work on Mindhunter.
The series made a major splash when it landed on Netflix last year; based on the book by Mark Olshaker and John E. Douglas, the series was inspired by real-life criminal profilers – who interviewed a large number of America’s most notorious serial killers as part of the FBI’s Behavioural Science Unit in a bid to delve into their psyches to solve pending investigations.
Now the Se7en and Zodiac filmmaker will return to the director’s chair once more; Playlist has reported he will direct the premiere and finale like season one, joined now by The Assassination of Jesse James‘ Andrew Dominik and Carl Franklin, who’s directed episodes of House of Cards, The Leftovers, and Vinyl.
The season will also reportedly only feature eight episodes, versus the first outing’s ten. The show will now turn its focus to the Atlanta child murders of the late 1970s and early 80s. A man named Wayne Williams was tried, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment for killing two adult men.
Only after his conviction did the Atlanta Police Department announce that Williams was responsible for at least 23 of the 29 child murders. He was never convicted of a single one of them.
Stars Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, and Anna Torv will all return. Mindhunter season 2 is reportedly set for release in 2019.
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