Oscar-winning actress/producer Charlize Theron (Monster, The Road) and producer/director David Fincher (Zodiac, Se7en) are developing a new HBO crime drama based on the book Mind Hunter:Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by renowned FBI profiler John Douglas and novelist/filmmaker Mark Olshaker (Mind of a Serial Killer).

The series will recount Douglas’ experiences on the field while tracking down serial killers and rapists. “Dexter” executive producer Scott Buck is writing the pilot.

Douglas pioneered the profiling techniques used by the Bureau today and was the inspiration for the agent Jack Crawford character in author Thomas Harris’ Hannibal Lecter novels and the Frank Black character in Chris Carter’s “Millennium” series.

He has profiled such noted monsters as JohnWayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, David Berkowitz, (aka: Son of Sam), Charles Manson, James Earl Ray, Edmund Kemper (aka: the Coed Killer), Richard Speck, and countless others.

Though he retired in the mid-nineties, Douglas continued to consult in such high-profile cases as The Unabomber, the Nicole Brown Simpson/ Ron Goldman murders, and the JonBenet Ramsey homicide.

If you want to freak yourself out, read Douglas’ The Anatomy of Motive and Anyone You Want Me to Be: A True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet.