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'Mindhunter' Season 2: EP Charlize Theron Confirms August Return; More Updates

Believe it or not, it was November 2017 when Netflix first announced it had renewed critically-acclaimed serial killer drama Mindhunter for a second season. Since then, things have been… let's say a little quiet. But now, we're getting some updates that should have viewers scouting out the streaming service's "Endless Scroll" very soon:

● Executive producer Charlize Theron confirmed on the Howard Stern Show that the second season of the award-winning drama is set to debut on Netflix this August.

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● For his part, executive producer David Fincher is already on record as saying that the next season would focus on The Atlanta Child Murders, which resulted in the deaths of at least 28 African-American children, adolescents, and adults between 1979-1981 and kept the country in a grip of fear for two years. FBI agent John E. Douglas (on which Jonathan Groff's Holden Ford is based) would eventually catch the killer; and interestingly enough, also earn him an official reprimand over the manner in which the case was handled.

● In a recent interview with Vulture, Douglas confirmed the overall plans for the series as well as some of the familiar names expected to appear – including a rumored Damon Herriman doing double duty as Charles Manson (he is also portraying Manson in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood):

"'Mindhunter' is going to have a five-year arc. At least five years is what they are planning. That's what David Fincher asked both the actors: 'Can you give me five years here?'…I know there are supposed to be eight episodes [in the second season]. I know the cases. They are going to have David Berkowitz, as well as Charles Manson. The Atlanta child killings in the early '80s, they're gonna be covering that."

● Fincher will direct the premiere and finale episodes, while Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James, Killing Me Softly) will helm two episodes, and filmmaker Carl Franklin (House Of Cards, 13 Reasons Why) will direct the remaining episodes – for an expected 8-episode second season (according to The Playlist).

Fincher directed four episodes and executive produced the first season of Mindhunter, which takes place in 1979 and focuses on FBI Special Agents Holden Ford (Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) during the early days of the FBI's serial killer profiling unit. The partners interview imprisoned serial killers in order to better understand how they think and operate, which they then apply to solving open cases. But as the agents delve deeper into the minds of the most criminally insane, those around them worry if they can find their way back. And even if they do… can they ever be the same again?

Mindhunter also stars Anna Torv (Fringe) and Hannah Gross (Unless), with Fincher sharing the directing chair with Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna), Tobias Lindholm (A War, A Hijacking) and Andrew Douglas (The Amityville Horror). Fincher, Joshua Donen (Gone Girl), Charlize Theron (Girlboss, Hatfields & McCoys) and  Cean Chaffin (Fight Club) are serving as executive producers.

IndieWire

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