David Fincher is rumored to be developing a Squid Game spinoff for Netflix, but before he does, we want him to finish what he started on the streamer.

Squid Game has been a phenomenal success for Netflix, with season 1 breaking records and the highly anticipated Season 2 will follow in just a couple of months.

Since it’s a Korean show in the Korean language, it’s perhaps inevitable that Netflix would want to make an American spinoff. But more surprising is the news that David Fincher will be working on what we call “Squid Game America.”

There is no doubt that the filmmaker was able to create something special in the Squid Game universe. But Fincher also left Mindhunter viewers hanging five years ago, so we’d rather see him finish that show on the streamer before starting something new.

What Happened to Mindhunter Season 3?

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Season 1 of Mindhunter dropped in 2017, while Season 2 followed in 2019. However, due to rising production costs, Season 3 was delayed and pushed back before being canceled.

Mindhunter focused on the birth of the FBI’s elite serial crimes unit in the late 1970s, and being a period piece, each episode cost a fortune to make.

Speaking to Variety in 2020 about the third season, Fincher said: “I don’t know if it makes sense to continue. It was an expensive show. It had a very passionate audience, but we never got the numbers to justify the cost.”

There were also problems behind the scenes, with botched scripts and a showrunner fired, culminating in the main cast being released from their contracts.

A Netflix representative stated at the time that Fincher “may revisit Mindhunter in the future, but in the meantime felt it wasn’t fair to the cast to prevent them from pursuing other work while he explored new work of his own.”

This was frustrating for fans, as the show was conceived as a five-season story, which meant a lot was created that has yet to pay off, both in terms of the development of criminal profiling and drama in the lives of the main characters Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff), Bill Tench ( Holt McCallany) and Wendy Carr (Anna Torv).

What is Squid Game America?

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The rumored Squid Game series is a sequel or spinoff that will be played in English.

Deadline broke the story overnight, write it “Although details are vague, rumors have been growing for months about what Fincher might be up to next. While he could squeeze in a movie in advance, insiders say Squid Game series is likely the project Fincher is betting on in 2025.”

Dennis Kelly is believed to be writing the spinoff, which would make sense, as Fincher was such a fan of his work on the Channel 4 show Utopia that he secured the rights to an American remake, before ultimately exiting the project.

The filmmaker also has form on this front, with his 1997 thriller The Game covering similar ground to the first season of Squid Game.

This American iteration won’t be the first Squid Game spinoff either, as we’ve already had a hugely successful game show Squid Game: The Challengewhich has already been renewed for a second series.

How would Mindhunter have ended?

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David Fincher had a plan for the end of Mindhunter, with several serial killers to follow in seasons 3 and 4, then reaching its climax with the capture of BTK killer Dennis Reader in Season 5.

“At some point, I would love to revisit it,” Fincher explained to Variety. “The hope was to get all the way up to the late ’90s, early 2000s, hopefully, get all the way up to people knocking on Dennis Rader’s door.”

But that was 2020, and with the Squid Game looking set to be the filmmaker’s focus for the foreseeable future, it’s probably final nail in the coffin for any future Mindhunter episodes.

But during a later interview, Fincher said he bears no ill will toward Netflix over the end of the series, adding, “They took risks to get the show off the ground, gave me the opportunity to make Mank the way I wanted to make it, and they allowed me to venture down new paths with The killer.

“It is a blessing to work with people who are capable of boldness. The day our desires are not the same, we must be honest about parting ways.”

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