David Fincher's mis-adventures at Netflix may be coming to an end

Fincher signed with the streamer in 2020, a year when signing an exclusive with a streamer offering to make your high-priced passion projects made a whole lot of business sense. However, his work since signing has not had the healthy post-theatrical life that, say, Zodiac or Fight Club enjoyed. Part of that is because Mank and The Killer never received a robust theatrical rollout. (Mank was released during the pandemic, and The Killer had a short awards-qualifying run.) Additionally, neither Mank nor The Killer are available on Blu-ray, and Fincher grew his cult following through exceptional DVD releases. Of course, audiences really didn’t like Mank, and they ignored The Killer. Therein lies the problem of Netflix’s massive content dumps.  

Fincher has been working with Netflix for more than a decade. He delivered the streamer’s first big hit, House Of Cards, in 2013, and the cult animated anthology series Love, Death & Robots. He won an Emmy for directing the pilot episode of his beloved procedural Mindhunter. But with Fincher’s partnership with Netflix potentially coming to a close, we suppose we can officially give up hope for season three.