Mindhunter Season 2 Casts Damon Herriman as Charles Manson… Again
Based on the 1995 book Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker, Netflix’s Mindhunter adapts real FBI serial killer cases documented in the book, set against an atmosphere of insatiable lust and darkness. With suspense-minded visionary David Fincher and Charlize Theron as executive producers, Mindhunter isn’t a run of the mill crime procedural. The first season was a hit with viewers, and Netflix has confirmed that Mindhunter Season 2 is happening.
A small handful of directors have been announced for season 2’s 8 parts, too, including Fincher himself (who may have some unexpected spare time on his hands, now that World War Z 2 has been delayed yet again). He’ll be calling the shots on both the opening episode and the season finale, with Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James) taking on two episodes, and Carl Franklin (Devil In A Blue Dress) directing the other four.
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Charles Manson is joining the lineup of recreated serial killers for Mindhunter Season 2, as previously hinted. However, in what may be one of the most unique instances of typecasting ever implemented, Damon Herriman is portraying Manson on the show, reports Collider. The thing is, Herriman is also set to play Manson in Quentin Tarantino’s obscenely-cast-stacked movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood!
Here’s where things get weirder. While Herriman’s casting as Manson in the Tarantino movie was announced first, it turns out that his run as the killer (for another auteur in David Fincher,) on Mindhunter Season 2 was not only procured first, but it was already shot back in July! Consequently, Herriman’s subsequent casting as Manson in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood seems to be a strong indicator that his Mindhunter performance was so outstanding that Tarantino ignored unwritten showbiz protocol and decided to cast him for same character anyway.
Thankfully, Herriman’s double-duty portrayal of Charles Manson will carry some contrasts (shared-universe speculation aside). That’s because Once Upon a Time will depict Manson in 1969 as he – and the Manson Family – perpetrates the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders, while Mindhunter Season 2 will see Herriman playing Manson during the 1980s, already incarcerated over said murders for several years and playing the appeals game.
Herriman, an Australian actor, has banked myriad television roles, but might be best remembered brandishing an American Southern accent as the hapless – oddly likable despite a swastika-tattoo – criminal, Dewey Crowe on FX’s Justified. He recently fielded TV runs on Squinters, Incorporated, Quarry, Secret City and Battle Creek, with movie roles in The Water Diviner, Son of a Gun and The Lone Ranger.
We already had a pretty strong indication that Mindhunter Season 2 would spend more time on the Dennis Rader/BTK killer case, but That Hashtag Show has word on some of the other killers we’ll meet in the new season. According to THS, we’ll see interviews with the aforementioned Charlie Manson, along with David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz, Elmer Wayne Henley, William Pierce Jr, William Henry Hance (“the Stocking Strangler”) and Paul Bateson.
Mindhunter Season 2 Release Date
Netflix is probably a long way from divulging the Mindhunter Season 2 release date, but it certainly won’t arrive until 2019.
Mindhunter Season 2 Cast
There is no confirmed information on the lineup for Mindhunter Season 2. However, barring any shocking shedding of main cast players, we can, for now, presume that the Season 1 primary players are returning.
Holt McCallany told ScreenRant that David Fincher has long term plans, saying “he wants to do five years of this show. Five seasons of these characters and so I’m hopeful, you know I don’t take anything for granted.”
We’ll update this with more information as it becomes available.
