Whether he's a good shout for Bond 25 remains to be seen, but there's no denying Cary Fukunaga was the only one able to give us Maniac.

The Netflix limited series was every bit as ambitious, intricate and mind-bending as its title suggests, so is there really scope for a second season?

If it's up to Cary, there is.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter about the possibility of returning to the show, Fukunaga admitted that he is "definitely" tempted to take the premise further.

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"When you spend that much time writing and developing these things, they exist in your mind as if real people existed," he explained. "We can very easily figure out how to continue that story if Netflix wanted to."

Reminding us of his first (and sadly, only) season of True Detective, Fukunaga then argued: "But we also wrote it to be complete in one season.

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"Were it to be turned into other seasons, there are ways to look at sequels. But we weren't necessarily looking at it in a classic multi-season television way, throwing up a bunch of juicy morsels like bait for people to tune in for another season.

"We really tried to – as much as possible – satisfyingly end the story by the end."

Maniac is available to stream on Netflix now. Fukunaga's Bond 25 is scheduled for a worldwide release on February 14, 2020.

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