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Yahoo
3 days ago
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- Yahoo
‘Mindhunter' May Return as Three Movies, Star Holt McCallany Reveals
There is hope, Mindhunter fans. Holt McCallany, who starred in the Netflix series for two seasons alongside Jonathan Groff, recently told CBR about the long-awaited possibility of a revival and how he's spoken to the show's executive producer/director David Fincher about the series returning as possibly three films. More from The Hollywood Reporter Don't Expect Netflix to Save U.S. Broadcast Networks Somebody Listen to Phil Kathryn Bigelow's 'A House of Dynamite' Sets Fall Release for Theaters and Netflix 'I had a meeting with David Fincher in his office a few months ago, and he said to me that there is a chance that it may come back as three two-hour movies, but I think it's just a chance,' said the Waterfront star. 'I know there are writers that are working, but you know, David has to be happy with scripts.' He continued, 'I recently wrote a script that he was kind enough to give me notes on. I was in script revisions with David for two and a half years.. but [he] was very meticulous, which is why I think he's the best director in Hollywood,' The Iron Claw star said before adding, 'He gave me a little bit of hope when I had that meeting with him, but the sun, the moon and the stars would all have to align.' Mindhunter dropped on Netflix in 2017 and 2019 and followed Bill (McCallany) and Holden (Groff) investigating the psyche of serial killers. Netflix decided not to renew the series primarily because of high production costs, according to Fincher. 'It's a very expensive show, and in the eyes of Netflix, we didn't attract enough of an audience to justify such an investment' for a season three, he said in 2023. However, six years later, the fans and its passionate fanbase have continued to ask for more. Previously, in 2021, Groff also told The Hollywood Reporter he would return and gushed about his love of working with Fincher. 'To me, Mindhunter is Fincher. The whole experience for me was the honor and privilege of getting to work with him. This was the main draw for me,' Groff said. 'The minute he says he wants to do another one, I'll be there in a second. But I trust his vision and his instincts, and so I leave it always in his hands, as ever.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise
Yahoo
3 days ago
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- Yahoo
Kevin Williamson Talks ‘The Waterfront' Finale and Insane Childhood That Informed Netflix Series
[This story contains MAJOR spoilers from the season finale of.] Kevin Williamson had a crazy childhood — and not all of it was captured on Dawson's Creek. For starters, the creek was not shark-infested waters. More from The Hollywood Reporter King Charles and Idris Elba Team Up on Netflix Doc About Charity That "Changed" Actor's Life 'Mindhunter' May Return as Three Movies, Star Holt McCallany Reveals Don't Expect Netflix to Save U.S. Broadcast Networks Netflix's The Waterfront takes the drug-smuggling aspect of Williamson's youth up a few notches. It also features a tremendous heel turn by Topher Grace (That '70s Show). The rest of the cast, which also includes Holt McCallany, Melissa Benoist, Jake Weary, Maria Bello and Dave Annable, among others, are quite capable as well. The Waterfront sees the Buckleys, a successful and affluent coastal North Carolina family on the brink of losing it all, turn to drug-running. As can happen with smuggling, violence follows — a lot of violence. The biggest bang comes in the season finale; if you don't want to be spoiled, stop reading right here. For the rest of you, our Q&A with Williamson is below. *** as the villain Grady— I wrote it with him in mind, and I was hoping he would say yes. Ben [Fast], who is my partner on this [and an] executive producer of the sho, had some meetings with him, and I had met Topher over the years so I knew him from around Hollywood. Ben was like, 'We need like a Topher Grace character in this role.' And I was like, 'Oh my God, he would be great!' I love taking these sort of likable, fun actors and just turning them into raging psychopaths — I think it's a lot of fun. Netflix wanted us to keep the show very regional and Southern, and not have him be this tech guy from New York who comes in and starts drug smuggling. [Grady's] family hails from Atlanta and they were this big, well-to-do, rich family that sort of threw him away because he was trouble. He's clearly on the spectrum of some major crazy, and it just got worse and worse and worse. I think he got into some stock fraud and ended up in prison, and then came out having met a lot of other criminals, and he decided he had a new game plan. Did you ever assign a specific 'major crazy' diagnosis for him in your mind? No, no. But he had inherited his grandparents' land, and I think his family saw it as a way to get rid of him. And so he went down there and did a little opium startup. Sometimes in your stuff and they're not really dead. comes to mind. Grady is definitely dead though, right? Yeah, yeah. We're paving the way for an equally [evil] new villain next year. If people watch [season one]. Is the plan for a villain-of-the-season? I don't know if there's a villain of the season. [For a season two], we have the Parker family that will come into play. They have such a backstory with the Buckleys already. The Parker family would become season two's big conflict. We've only met Emmett [Terry Serpico] and his father. There are more Parker family members and they will prove to be equally as complicated as the Buckleys — and more dangerous than Grady could ever be. So Belle (Mario Bello) broke bad at the end of season one — did Cane (Jake Weary) break bad? Cane really, he was compromised. He finally killed someone, which he didn't plan on doing. He was trying to not cross that line. He has disposed of a body, he has watched somebody being killed, but [in the past] when it came time to pull the trigger, he couldn't do it. In episode eight, he finally did it. So there's no turning back for him. I do think he's kind of on another path. But in my mind, he's still the good guy. I like him, too. I like everybody. You have to in order to write them, but I think they're all good people who have done bad things. The whole thing is: How do you pull them back to good? Once you cross the line, can you go back? Can you ever forgive him? [The Hollywood Reporter asked actor Jake Weary the same question via email. 'Did Cane break bad at the end of season one?' Here's what he said: 'When Cane is standing there with the smoking gun in his hand, I like to imagine the first thought in his mind is, 'Holy s***, I just killed a human being,' immediately followed by, 'but did the right thing, you did it for everything you stand for.' Which is his family. I'm not sure if he's necessarily 'breaking bad' by killing Grady, but it does symbolize a massive paradigm shift moving forward. Cane is now capable of murder, and what does that say about his emotional fragility? Does it prove something about himself to his father that Harlan never thought was there? I think the more interesting side of it is actually Harlan's perspective of what transpires, that maybe his own son isn't who he thought he was.'] [] So, where are the Buckleys at exactly, money-wise, at the end of season one? At the end of season one, they had broke even, and they were doing well. The problem was, as Harlan [Holt McCallany] explained it, running drugs is a drug. Just making that money; you start prospering and you see everything getting better. Quite frankly, it's the thing that brought him back to life. It was one thing he's really good at. And so, who would want to give that up? He's starting to live again. But now they're beholden to another organization, and they have to work for the Parkers. Now they have a bigger foe to deal with. Waterfront settings are all the rage in TV series these days — it's wealth porn. Beyond the obvious natural beauty, what makes those locations so inherently watchable? I don't know. I think maybe there's a wish fulfillment to it. If you live in the middle of the country, you don't see the ocean a lot. And I love it. I grew up on the water. I think it's so picturesque. When you think of just like a happy place to go, I think of the water. The reason we wanted to do this is, there's such beauty there, but what's under the surface? We played with the whole idea of the duality of life, and I think that happens. It's such a beautiful setting. I personally love it. and it's meant to be a fun show. It shouldn't be some heady… I didn't want to make a show that was homework. I wanted it to be watchable and fun and bingey; a summer fun show. We really tried to stay in the bingey world with the tone of the show, in the sense of humor about it also holding true to the characters. We wanted a fun show. You're on Netflix — do you also feel the vibes? It does have Bloodline vibes because of the water and — [Bloodline] was in Florida, right? Yeah, Islamorada in the Florida Keys. So it had a little bit of a different vibe, but it was equally as beautiful. And it did have a family at its core. Yes, there are definitely some Bloodline vibes. Netflix describes as being based on 'true events.' I'm told that means it's based on your childhood. So, what the fuck happened in your childhood? I mean, it'll go longer than this Zoom. I've been through a lot — I've been dipped in sharks. I've done it all there. You were (purposely) dunked headfirst into the ocean with sharks around you? It was a long story. Yes, I was 10 years old — it was a silly thing. It was a prank that my uncle played on me. He was a kid, he was a punk. Once again, very good guy who just did silly — there was that one day we woke up and there were just sharks everywhere. And they had a pistol, and they were throwing chum over, and when the sharks came to the surface, they'd shoot it. Does that kill a shark? Well, they'd shoot it in the head for fun. It was so awful, it was just awful. I remember I wouldn't even go to the edge and look over because I was so terrified. And the boat was (rocking). I remember my uncle said, 'I'll hold you.' And then, of course, he picked me up to held me over, like an idiot. Jesus. He was a kid. He turned out to be my favorite uncle. You sure about that ranking? He was my favorite uncle, so I loved him dearly. He's passed. My mom wasn't part of this story. My dad, in the '80s, was a fisherman. He worked on the shrimp trawler, and the business had bellied up, and so my dad had an opportunity to smuggle some marijuana… Oh, this really happened? Well, it was marijuana, but yeah. At the time, we basically considered that opium. It was in the '80s, and he did some smuggling with some other people. He got caught, and he went to prison for a little while. Very much like if you'd — see, you didn't watch Dawson's Creek! Sorry about that. Joey's [Katie Holmes] dad went to prison for smuggling marijuana. He was in prison, and she had to go visit him there. So, yeah, I've been writing about this for a while. Everybody's like, 'Oh, this is true!' I go, 'Well, I wrote about it my first TV show.' Yeah, that's my bad. It was a pretty big show and I'm TV Editor, I should probably know that… No, no it's OK. [Pauses] I haven't seen every episode. What was your dad's role in the smuggling operation? He just had a boat. He was a runner. He didn't own a beach house, he didn't own a restaurant. That was all fiction. I really did embellish and exaggerate. You write what you know, but it always starts with a kernel of truth, same as Dawson's Creek. That's autobiographical, but hardly any of that happened to me. I always talked with my dad about making this show and telling the story. He was like, 'OK, go for it. Wait 'til I'm dead, but then do it.' And then he actually said, 'No, don't wait 'til I'm dead. I want to watch it happen.' And then, of course, he didn't make it — but he was close. He had a huge sense of humor, kind of like Harlan does. You've had some long-running franchises — , , . But that's not really the trend in TV these days. Do you have a max number of seasons in mind for ? You know, it's interesting. This is a new landscape. Netflix is a new world to me. Streaming is a new world to me. I think, three seasons? If they wanted four… The good news is, with a family, I feel like we have such a great cast of actors that we could explore beyond three seasons. But I went in there pitching three — that's [Netflix's) magic number. In the back of my head, [I was thinking], 'Oh, this could go four [seasons]. It's only eight episodes.' I mean, three seasons is one season of network [television]. I could go five seasons if it's a success, but I'd be happy with three. Three would be a solid number. I used to watch shows for years and years and years, and I saw every episode of CSI, but now I'm in a place where I just watched three seasons and I'm kind of done. *** The Waterfront is now streaming all episodes on Netflix. 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Time of India
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
The Waterfront review roundup: Holt McCallany of Mindhunter fame fails to save Netflix drama
Netflix's The Waterfront was a much-anticipated series with considerable pedigree behind it. Aside from being developed by Kevin Williamson, who was well-renowned for his work on the iconic Scream horror movie series, as well as Dawson's Creek, the series also starred Holt McCallany, who'd risen to prominence thanks to his work on Netflix's critically acclaimed Mindhunter series. Alongside him, The Waterfront starred Melissa Benoist, Jake Weary and Rafael L. Silva. The Netflix series, however, has had a middling critical reception compared to Mindhunter, sitting at a lukewarm 54 on Metacritic. While the show has garnered praise from outlets such as The Collider and The New York Times, it has also drawn negative comparisons to 2018's Yellowstone by its harshest detractors. The Waterfront's Metacritic is just 54 compared to Mindhunter's 85 From the creator of Dawson's Creek and Scream, The Waterfront centers on the fictional Buckley family and their crumbling fishing details: Mindhunter's second season sits pretty on Metacritic with a score of 85, indicating 'Universal Acclaim'. The Waterfront, however, does not reach those heights. The series did garner its share of praise. In one of its more positive reviews, Collider's Samuel R. Murrian called the series one of the year's best shows. He praised the influences The Waterfront took from Ozark and Yellowstone and even went as far as saying that The Waterfront could be among Netflix's flagship series if future seasons managed to build on the first season's foundation. The show, from 'Dawson's Creek' creator Kevin Williamson, struggles to find a middle ground between gritty family saga and goofy CW This sentiment, however, was not universal. The Pittsburgh Tribune's Rob Owen was far more middling in his assessment of the show, noting a 'sameness' about it, comparable to Kevin Williamson's earlier Ransom Canyon, that rendered both series 'various levels of meh'. This sentiment was shared by The Daily Beast's Caroline Siede, who called the show 'Yellowstone with seafood', and claimed that it struggled to find a balance between being a gritty family drama, and a goofy CW series. TVLine's Dave Nemetz was far more scathing in his assessment, as he called the dialogue 'unforgivably dumb' and claimed that while the series tried to emulate Yellowstone and Dallas, it was far too by-the-numbers to measure up to either. With such a tepid critical response, it seems unlikely that this Netflix series will reach the levels of commercial and critical success Mindhunter once did. There is currently no confirmation of a second season.
Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Netflix series could be saved six years on from axing
A legendary Netflix series could be saved as the lead star gave a promising update about a streaming comeback after meeting with the director - a full six years on from its controversial axing Psychological crime thriller Mindhunter hit the streaming service back in 2017 and went on to air 19 episodes across two seasons, before wrapping up in 2019. 'In the late 1970s two FBI agents expand criminal science by delving into the psychology of murder and getting uneasily close to all-too-real monsters,' the Netflix synopsis reads. The popular programme, created by Joe Penhall, stars the likes of Jonathan Groff, 40, Holt McCallany, 61, Anna Torv, 46, and Hannah Gross, 34. In a recent chat with CBR , Holt - who played Bill Tench in the series - has teased that it could indeed be making a return. He said: 'So look, you know, I had a meeting with David Fincher in his office a few months ago, and he said to me that there is a chance that it may come back as three two-hour movies, but I think it's just a chance. 'I know there are writers that are working, but you know, David has to be happy with scripts.' He added: 'And I felt very fortunate and privileged to have gotten to do that show at all. 'So I think that in terms of dates and logistics, it could all be worked out, but it has to do, you know, with David really having the time and the inclination and being happy, you know, with the material. 'And, you know, that's a big question mark.' It comes after Netflix fans were left furious back in April after it was claimed that Mindhunter wouldn't see another season because 'it's too expensive'. In an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche back in 2023, David previously asserted that there wouldn't be another season of the beloved show. He said: 'I'm very proud of the first two seasons. 'But it's a particularly expensive show, and in Netflix's eyes, we didn't attract a large enough audience to justify such an investment. 'I don't blame them; they took risks to launch the series, gave me the means to do what I dreamed of with Mank, and they allowed me to venture down new paths with The Killer. 'It's a chance to be able to work with people capable of daring. 'The day our desires are no longer the same, we will have to be honest about parting ways.' David's quote resurfaced on X recently and left some fans disappointed by the news. One commented: 'Y'all filmed in two rooms and a parking lot, where did the budget go.' 'One of the best series.' 'Sell it to Apple TV please I love that show.' 'This is why I stopped watching shows. All of them end up getting cancelled because they become too expensive.' 'Such a shame too, because it was one of the better things to come out of Netflix for a long while.' ''Didn't attract an audience' when it's literally one of the best Netflix show to have ever been made.' 'I knew this, I actually let go of my Netflix subscription when I realised it wasn't coming back. [Expletive] me off. One of the better crime shows I've watched.' Mindhunter is available to stream on Netflix now.
Forbes
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Holt McCallany Talks Partying With Tom Cruise, Returning To Netflix For ‘The Waterfront' & Gearing Up For His Directorial Debut
The Waterfront. Holt McCallany as Harlan Buckley in episode 102 of The Waterfront. Cr. Dana ... More Hawley/Netflix © 2025 To say Holt McCallany's career exploded following his breakout role in Netflix's Mindhunter would be an understatement. Less than a decade after playing FBI profiler Bill Tench opposite Jonathan Groff's Holden Ford in the acclaimed serial killer drama, the longtime character actor found himself at the exclusive Soho Farmhouse just outside London, celebrating Tom Cruise's 60th birthday alongside such entertainment luminaries as Jerry Bruckheimer, Anne Hathaway, Sam Mendes, and James Corden. 'There was a lot of love in the room,' he remembers over Zoom. 'Yeah, I suppose it would be easy to say that when you're the biggest movie star in the world and your films have made billions of dollars at the global box office, it inspires goodwill. But it was more than that. People had flown in from all over the world to be there at that party, and it really was a wonderful event.' The event was so wonderful, in fact, that McCallany, who was in the United Kingdom for the production of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (currently playing in theaters nationwide; click here for tickets), decided to go all-out for his own 60th celebration the following year at a classic Hollywood institution. 'I shared a car with Esai Morales [who plays The Final Reckoning's mysterious villain, Gabriel] on the way home and said to him, 'You know, man? I wasn't going to throw a party for my 60th, but now that I saw Tom's party, I know that I have to have a party.' Mine not was not quite as lavish. I did it at Musso and Frank, just because I happen to like that old school Hollywood vibe. I invited, just as Tom had done, people that had been with me since the beginning of my journey. And it was a really memorable evening, but had I not been invited to Tom's party, I probably wouldn't have had one of my own.' NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 18: Holt McCallany arrives at the US Premiere of "Mission: Impossible – The ... More Final Reckoning" at Lincoln Center Plaza in New York, New York on May 18, 2025. (Photo byfor Paramount Pictures) After decades of starring opposite A-listers like Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Rami Malek, and Liam Neeson, and more McCallany says he's developed a nifty immunity to becoming starstruck. As such, sharing the same space as Cruise, Angela Bassett, and Nick Offerman for the latest Mission: Impossible (his second espionage-related project of 2025 after The Amateur) didn't seem as daunting as it might have been for an industry neophyte. 'When we get out there on the set, we're playing for the same team and you have your position to play,' he explains. 'If Tom Cruise is like the Tom Brady of movie stars, Tom Brady still needs somebody to throw the ball to. He still needs somebody to block for him. Filmmaking is a team sport … We're all actors and our job is to try to make this particular scene that we're shooting on this particular day as good as it can possibly be.' The Amateur and The Final Reckoning, however, were only the appetizers to McCallany's action-packed summer, which also includes the release of a brand-new Netflix series, The Waterfront (all eight episodes are now streaming). Created by slasher maven Kevin Williamson (Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer), the engaging family crime drama molded in the vein of Ozark centers around a North Carolina fishing dynasty forced to smuggle drugs in order to keep itself afloat — no pun intended. 'Somebody said to me the other day in an interview, 'How would you feel if people compared the show to things like Ozark and Succession?'' shares McCallany. 'And I said, 'I'd be very flattered, because those are iconic shows and we should be so fortunate as to be considered in that category.'' Despite Williamson's horror background, the writer actually comes from a family of seafaring folk, hence the overtly maritime setting and hook-handed villain of I Know What You Did Last Summer. 'He's been very open about the fact that his father was, at one time, involved in smuggling — I think it was marijuana — back in the '80s. Of course, now people buy marijuana at the corner store, but it wasn't like that in those days," says McCallany, who plays Harlan, the grizzled and booze-swigging patriarch of the Buckley clan: wife Belle (Maria Bello), son Cane (Jake Weary), and daughter Bree (Melissa Benoist). 'A lot of the the experiences that Harlan has are drawn from that. It's kind of semi-autobiographical in a way,' notes the actor. "So I felt an responsibility to really do the character justice. I always feel that. I never want a writer or a director to feel like, 'Oh, I got the wrong guy,' or, 'This guy didn't understand the character,' or 'This guy gave me a performance, but it wasn't the performance that I wanted.'" While he's taken a step back from day-to-day operations in recent years, Harlan (whose methods are ruthlessly old school) is forced to intervene when his son's recklessness not only draws suspicion from DEA Agent Marcus Sanchez (Gerardo Celasco) but the ire and interest of dangerous criminals like Topher Grace's Grady. 'I liked the way that Harlan was written and Kevin seemed to like the way that I was playing him,' adds McCallany. 'And so, we had this very easygoing kind of relationship, which I was grateful for because above all else, I wanted the experience of shooting The Waterfront to be fun. I really liked the other people in the cast. I love the little town of Wilmington, North Carolina [where we shot] … With a show like Mindhunter, we were always delving into the psychological underpinnings of sexually-motivated homicides and these gruesome murders … It was heavy stuff. It was dark. And this is a different kind of a show. It's lighter. It's a crime drama. It's a family drama, yes, but it has humor and it has sex appeal. I think it's got a little bit of something for everyone." Even with a plethora of acting opportunities on his plate, McCallany has impressively found the time to prep his directorial debut, an American remake of the 1995 Italian film The Star Maker by Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso). In addition to serving as director, the actor also co-wrote the screenplay with collaborator Noel Lawrence and input from David Fincher (whom McCallany has worked with three times since 1992). 'We spent two years in script revisions with David and the thing became exponentially better by an order of magnitude,' he teases. 'In the past, whether it was Alien 3, Fight Club, or Mindhunter, I was always working as an actor-for-hire, for David. So you come in, the script is written, the project is already cast, the locations are chosen, and you just have your responsibilities as an actor to execute. It's very different when you come with a piece of material and say, 'Hey, how about this?' I was just really fortunate that he happened to like the thing that I had chosen, so he gave me a lot of his time. That was really valuable to me.' LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 10: (L-R) Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany and David Fincher attend the LFF ... More Connects Special Presentation: "Mindhunter" European Premiere during the 61st BFI London Film Festival on October 10, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Tim P. Whitby/Tim P. Whitby/ Getty Images for BFI)
