David Fincher is due to hop back into the director’s chair for his Netflix crime series Mindhunter in its second season, with fellow movie maestro Andrew Dominik set to join him.
According to The Playlist, Fincher will helm the opening and finale episodes of what is believed to be an eight episode season. Andrew Dominik, best known for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, will take charge of two episodes and House of Cards veteran Carl Franklin is set to direct the rest.
Dominik, who was last seen directing Nick Cave documentary One More Time With Feeling, is connected with Fincher via Brad Pitt, who has worked with both directors on numerous occasions.
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Starring trio Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, and Anna Torv will return for the second season of Mindhunter, which will follow the team as they investigate child murders in Atlanta that took place in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Fincher is doing prep work on the season now, with shooting set to begin at the end of this month in advance of a planned release in the early part of 2019, according to the report.
This is bad news for anyone waiting to see what Fincher does with the World War Z sequel, which is likely to be put on the back burner until the director’s schedule frees up a little next year.
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Originally published April 19, 2018. Updated December 16, 2019.
