David Fincher’s Netflix crime show Mindhunter has Fringe star Anna Torv once again wielding an FBI badge.
Netflix just can’t stop spewing spectacular trailers this week. The original content-teasing deluge continues with the debut trailer for crime series Mindhunter. Of course, this being Netflix, they decided that the inaugural season of a series dwelling in a heavily-explored genre needed some visionary power, so they went and tapped the master of dark, atmospheric drama David Fincher as executive producer. Now, a manic montage of a teaser trailer arrives for the series, which is based on the real-life exploits of FBI criminal profilers.
Mindhunter is a 10-episode Netflix series based on the 1995 true crime memoir Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. The book chronicles an array of the unfathomably gruesome serial killer cases from the 25-year bureau career of Douglas, who was the inspiration for Scott Glenn’s Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs. Likewise, the teaser trailer for Mindhunter, set in 1979, centers on the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit. While vague on specifics, the clip focuses on the dark depths in which the series will exist, contrasting the team’s analyses on the deathly desires of serial killers with images of bleakness and lascivious lust. Indeed, the series seems to be embodied by its own quote stating, “You want truffles, you gotta get in the dirt with the pigs.”
On Mindhunter, the Douglas character manifests through FBI Behavior Science Unit agent Holden Ford, played by Jonathan Groff, a television alumnus from Glee and Looking, who is also remembered as the voice of ice harvester Kristoff in Disney’s Frozen. He’s paired opposite Anna Torv, who's best known for starring on Fox’s celebrated sci-fi crime series Fringe and a mystery thriller series in her native Australia called Secret City. The duo are joined by veteran actor Holt McCallany, who appeared in key Fincher films like Fight Club and Alien 3 and another veteran actor in Cotter Smith, currently seen on FX’s The Americans and remembered from myriad small screen roles and as President McKenna in the pioneering 2003 comic book movie effort X2: X-Men United.
David Fincher, the longtime master of dark suspense, steps into the driver’s seat of Mindhunter as executive producer, having fielded Netflix's House of Cards, while sporting a directorial CV with films such as Gone Girl, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Seve7n and, of course, the pugilistic, anarchic and surreal 1999 film whose first rule demands we do not talk about it. He’s also stepped behind the camera for Mindhunter as a director for 3 episodes, working off scripts by John Douglas and Joe Penhall.
Mindhunter looks to delve deep into the darkness of the serial killer mind when it premieres on Netflix sometime in October.