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As if Netflix’s Mindhunter wasn’t already blowing your minds, now you have to deal with the fact that Mindhunter: The Musical is not an idea that’s been put into this universe.
This is all thanks to the show’s star, Jonathan Groff, who appeared last night on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Colbert talked to Groff about his background in Broadway theater, having appeared in shows like Spring Awakening and Hamilton. When talk then pivoted to Groff’s very different role as an FBI profiler on Mindhunter, things got a bit cheeky.
“[David Fincher] and I became really close on the set in Pittsburgh, doing Mindhunter, and he actually talked a lot about his desire to break into theater and to musical theater. And so we’ve actually been collaborating over the last couple of weeks on developing Mindhunter into a musical for Broadway.”
And what do these “early workshop” songs for Mindhunter sound like? Well, they sound an awful lot like Groff and Colbert having a laugh at the idea of a Mindhunter musical. Props on rhyming “perpetrators” with “decapitators,” though. Still, even though this was merely a bit on a late-night show, we can all dream of a day when Groff takes a Broadway stage and croons, “They call me the Mindhunter…”
