![]() ![]() I facilitated on various offending behaviour programmes to help participants reduce their risks of reoffending. After nursing for fifteen years, I took a job as a psychological assistant at a male prison. It’s given me the confidence to have a go at adapting my own novels for the screen too!Ħ. It’s great to explore a different medium of storytelling and learning how to write short films, pilot episodes and features. I won a place on the BBC’s CASUALTY shadow script scheme and soon after, embarked on a Screenwriting MA with Falmouth University. Having enjoyed an online course run by Line of Duty writer, Jed Mercurio, I sought out more scriptwriting opportunities. And hours and hours later… that’s that series done!ĥ I’m a student again. However hard I try to eke out a Netflix series, I find I just can’t hit the stop button before allowing the next episode to begin. I’m addicted to TV crime dramas and these days would be classed as a binge-watcher. Obviously, I can’t write an entire novel the night before the deadline though, so I’ve had to get better at organisation in that area!Ĥ. I don’t necessarily ‘enjoy’ being under pressure, but I do seem to thrive on it! I’ve always been like it – starting a school assignment the night before it’s due in, leaving work projects until hours before the deadline – it’s kind of how I work. ![]() I’m fifteen minutes away from either option, so in my mind there’s no better reason to live anywhere else! It’s why I set my novels in a small community, too, as it’s what I know best.ģ. I love Devon and I’m situated perfectly – with the dramatic Dartmoor landscape on one side and the stunning English Riviera coastline on the other. ![]() I’ve lived in the same village all my life. "Out of the basement grew this program of trying to sit with the most depraved minds that you could find to have them explain ‘What was going through your head?’ You had to acknowledge that your enemy was human and there were things about him we didn’t understand, but if you could empathize with him he might let you in on it. "They realized they didn’t understand modern-day criminality," Fincher said. These actual criminals, who existed in the public consciousness around the same time as Watergate, are a way for Fincher to look at the historic development of the FBI and criminal profiling in the context of a fictionalize tale. Charles Manson and the Son of Sam are also included. Douglas interviewed him in a California prison, where he is still serving several life sentences, and those conversations are reenacted for the purpose of the narrative in Mindhunter. The first several episodes include interviews with Edmund Kemper, a serial killer who murdered his grandparents, mother and several young women in the 1970s. The killers represented on the series are, generally, based in reality. We have to be able to show the audience what they need to see when they need to see it in order to understand." ’s notion was correct: We can’t be bootstrapped to the footnotes. "In the first two episodes they begin to get on their feet. "This was an approach to really excavate the idea of a particular moment in time, which probably took eight years ," Fincher noted. The series is set in 1979, but time is compressed, accelerating to get right into the action of the characters interviewing imprisoned serial killers. Instead, Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany play fictional agents in the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, both only loosely based on Olshaker and Douglas. Douglas are not characters in Mindhunter. If we stayed religiously to the chronology and called everybody by their real names and tried to get the life rights - it was an inordinately complex bowl of spaghetti to unwind."įor that reason Mark Olshaker and John E. "Which is to dramatize the time and the place and the crater that was created by this new thinking. "He came in and we talked about what it could be and he went away and came in with a pitch that was pretty much the only way to do this," Fincher said at a talk during the London Film Festival. However, in order to make the story work for television Fincher asked screenwriter Joe Penhall to take some serious dramatic liberties. The series, the idea for which was brought to Fincher by Charlize Theron, is based on a book called Mind Hunter: Inside The FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit, written by FBI agents Mark Olshaker and John E. The show, Mindhunter, premieres on Netflix on October 13 and looks at how several real-life FBI agents used interviews with serial killers to better solve ongoing cases. It’s not surprising, then, that Fincher’s latest endeavor is a TV series centered on the creation of criminal psychology and profiling inside the FBI. From Seven to Zodiac to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, the director has focused much of his work on why human beings kill. David Fincher has an undeniable interest in serial killers. ![]()
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