Well , that ’s an beguiling array of names . Netflix and David Fincher — who’ve already made magic with House of Cards — are adding Charlize Theron to the mix for drama serial Mindhunter , which is based on the true - offense classic by legendary FBI profiler John Douglas .
As Deadline reports , Fincher and Theron will executive - grow the series , which will have added originative big businessman from honour - winning playwright Joe Penhall ( Blue / Orange , Sunny Afternoon ) . Fincher ( no stranger to the in series - killer genre , with both Zodiac and Se7en in his filmography ) is also carry bring his target chops to the project .
John Douglas — who had a hand in coining the musical phrase “ serial killer”—retired from the FBI in 1995 and penned the best - selling Mindhunter : Inside the FBI ’s Elite Serial Crime Unit a yr later . As one of the Bureau ’s leading profilers , he work on high - profile cases ( including Seattle ’s Green River Killer and the Atlanta child murders ) ; he also studied legion ill-famed outlaw while they were in detainment , including John Wayne Gacy and Charles Manson . And according to DeadlineandDouglas ’ own life history , his vocation has already inspired some moderately memorable fictional characters , include Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs and Will Graham in Hannibal .
Though Netflix declined remark , The Hollywood Reporter speculatesthat Mindhunter — which has been in development for four years — is finally coming together thanks to heightened interest in the true criminal offense genre , in the Wake Island of wildly popular properties like podcast Serial and HBO doc The Jinx .
Top simulacrum : Charlize Theron at a photo call for Mad Max : Fury Road at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival . ( picture by Joel Ryan / Invision / AP )
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