Mindhunter = Manhunter‘s darker, stranger brother. Muttered voice-over: “I’m trying to warn you…your attitude is going to bite you in the ass.” Exec produced by David Fincher and produced by Charlize Theron, Josh Donen and Cean Chaffin, Mindhunter is a ten-episode Netflix series that, like Zodiac, is set in the ’70s. Okay, 1979. It’s about a pair of FBI agents (Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany) interviewing imprisoned serial killers to try to solve ongoing cases. Which of course is precisely what Manhunter‘s Will Graham (William Petersen) and Silence of the Lamb‘s Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) did — i.e., interview Hannibal Lecter in an attempt to capture, respectively, the Tooth Fairy and Buffalo Bill. Written by showrunner Joe Penhall (The Road) with the pilot episode directed by Fincher, Mindhunter is scheduled to start streaming — wait for it — sometime in October 2017.
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