Tags: Charlize Theron, David Fincher, HBO, The Mind Hunter

In the wake of The Sopranos and The Wire, two of best reviewed television programs in all of small-screen history, HBO isn’t slowing one bit. Last year, winners such as Eastbound & Down and Bored to Death debuted, while the returning In Treatment continued its excellent run; then, there’s 2010, which will see the premieres of Wire creator David Simon’s New Orleans-set Treme and Martin Scorcese’s Boardwalk Empire, both of which look exceptional. And now, the cable network is ready to join the David Fincher business, as word circulated early Thursday that the A-list director is working alongside Charlize Theron on Mind Hunter, an in-development adaptation of John Douglas and Mark Olshaker’s book Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI’s Serial Crime Unit.

The project is still in its script stage, with Theron, Jennifer Orme Erwin and Dexter executive producer Scott Buck all attached as exec producers, under Fox 21; Buck is also writing the pilot. The book itself is Douglas’s retelling of his FBI days, when he specialized in catching rapits and serial killers.

Mind Hunter is most definitely one to keep close tabs on, as things progress. Though, keep in mind, that Fincher falls into that “attached-to” whore category (and I say that with the utmost respect), an elite squad of brilliant filmmakers that express interest in a multitude of cool-sounding projects, with very few actually coming to fruition. See also: Martin Scorcese, Ridley Scott and Guillermo Del Toro.

Source: Variety