Mindhunter has not been renewed for a third season. The show has been held up because director David Fincher is focusing on other projects.
Priority is given to the completion of his latest feature film Mank and his work in the animation series Love, Death, and Robots.
The main cast has been released from their contracts so that they will be able to look for new work which means that Mindhunter will not prepare in the near future for another season. Fans should however not lose all hope that at some point in time, the show might come back.
A Netflix spokesperson reported: “It is possible for [Fincher] to return to Mindhunter in the future, but in the meantime, it seemed like the actors were not good enough to hang on to looking for another role while pursuing new projects.”
Previously, Fincher had planned for five seasons, but the original plan might no longer be in existence. If the series will come back, shooting will probably not start until the new Fincher feature film, Mank, is released, so most probably in 2021.
The second season took 8 months to film. Mindhunter’s three main actors – Holden Ford Jonathan Groff, Bill Tench Holt McCallany and Wendy Carr Anna Torv – have been withdrawn because Fincher is focusing on other projects. It is quite likely that he will still be able to get his core cast members back to Mindhunter in the future, but he will have to work to their time schedule and to make any new acting commitment.
Stacey Roca, Bill’s wife Nancy Tench (Roca has been periodically promoted to two-season series), Joe Tuttle, Greg Smith (also promoted) and Michael Cerveris, newly named supervisor of the Behavioral Science Department. Fingers are crossed for more of Ed Kemper (C4-0Bretton), Montie Rissell (Sam Strike) and Jerry Brudos (Happy Anderson), the memorably appalling serial killers.