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David Fincher remains with Netflix — the maestro of serial killer thrillers has extended his contract with the streaming leader for another three years, until 2027. Some more of this became known from the director’s recent interview, which was published in the December issue of the French magazine Premiere.
Fincher will continue to film for Netflix
David Fincher is one of the world’s brightest directors of the few who do not need additional performances: “Fight Club”, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, “Zodiac”, “Seven”, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and other masterpieces that you want to watch and with which Fincher made a name for himself in world cinema.
Returning to the news, if you remember, back in 2020, David Fincher signed an exclusive four-year deal with Netflix — it expired in 2024, and the director decided to extend the contact for another three years. It will continue to create original content for Netflix until at least 2027.
At one time, Fincher firmly believed that Netflix was the best place in Hollywood to continue making movies. At least this is how his previous statements were perceived, for example, in an interview with Le Monde, he stated the following:
“They’ve adopted an industry standard that makes sense for filmmakers. Netflix has by far the best “quality control” in all of Hollywood.”
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Fincher has been working purely on Netflix for about ten years – during this time, such well-known series as “House of Cards”, “Mindhunter”, “Love, Death and Robots” (co-author of the idea and executive producer), as well as feature films, were released. Munk” (2020) and the latest “The Killer” with Michael Fassbender. There are no details yet on the director’s next streaming projects.
The third season of “Mindhunter” – why it didn’t work out
By the way, this interview also mentioned the series “Mindhunter”, which was released on Netflix in 2017-2019 – an unusual criminal procedural drama about special agents of the FBI, who in the late 1970s interrogate serial killers and maniacs in order to form a department of FBI behavioral analysis based on the autobiographical book of special agent John Douglas “Mind Hunter: Inside FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit”. The series was canceled after the second season, despite high ratings, positive reviews and an unfinished finale – “the show proved too expensive and not popular enough to continue”. Fincher also previously cited being busy with other projects and the tedious production of the second season as factors that ultimately prevented a sequel from being made.
In a new interview, David Fincher mentioned money again – he explained that he deliberately took a risk with Mind Hunter, made a detour into psychology to stand out from other shows about the FBI, but the series turned out to be very expensive. Netflix wanted to review the approach to production.
“We were told that there was no point in continuing – unless the budget could be reduced or the show made more accessible to a wider audience. We really didn’t want to change the approach, and then we were told with all due respect that then it was the end of the story.”
This can be considered an indirect confirmation of the creative differences between David Fincher and Netflix, which led to the closure of the Mind Hunter series, so flattered by fans and critics.
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