Mindhunters, a new Netflix series will film in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Mindhunter will be directed by David Fincher and will feature Charlize Theron.
Details surrounding Mindhunter, have not been released. In 1996, John Douglas and Mark Olshanker wrote Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit, which the new Netflix series is based on.
From Deadline:
The book goes behind the scenes of some of his highest-profile cases, including the man who hunted prostitutes in Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle’s Green River killer. To hone in his profiling methods Douglas interviewed and studied a skew of serial killers. Several book and TV characters have been based in part on him, including Jack Crawford in Thomas Harris’ The Silence of the Lambs, Will Graham on Hannibal and Jason Gideon on Criminal Minds.
Douglas also worked as a consultant on The Silence of the Lambs as well.
David Fincher is the executive producer of the Netflix series, House of Cards which was recently renewed for a fifth season. HOC will film in Baltimore in 2016.
