Filmmaker David Fincher says he doubts that Netflix will ever release his TV series “Mindhunter” or any of his other films for the service on physical media. Fincher signed up with Netflix just over a decade ago, helping release their first major original drama series with “House of Cards” and then creating the period serial killer profiler series “Mindhunter” which lasted for two seasons on the service from 2017 to 2019. He’s subsequently released the films “Mank” and “The Killer” on Netflix, and the animated anthology series “Love, Death & Robots” which he executive produces.
Recently he re-upped his deal with them for several more years. Speaking with to promote the “Se7en” 4K disc release, the director was asked about the possibility of his work for the streamer ever coming to disc with “Mindhunter” specifically mentioned as part of the question. He says: “I like physical media, but I really like on-demand.
I mean, I love liner notes, and I kind of prefer laser discs to anything just because I’m old and I remember what LPs used to be like. I do like the act of holding them. But I can’t imagine there’s any interest in the business plan from Netflix to make packaged goods out of the stuff that I’ve made for them because their whole thing is that mainline that connects your eyeballs to their servers.
So, yeah, I doubt it.” Fincher then spoke about home video formats at length, saying issues like data compression on DVD means once.
