Michael Mann really is making a Heat 2 movie
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If the action is the juice for you, then we've got good news: Heat 2 is in the early stages of development as a movie.
EW has confirmed that director Michael Mann, who co-wrote Heat 2 as a novel with Meg Gardiner last year, is in negotiations with Warner Bros. to film the prequel/sequel to his 1995 crime cinema classic Heat. Deadline first reported the news.
Rumors have been swirling around the potential movie for a few weeks now, and Deadline reports that Mann has been in talks with Adam Driver (the star of Mann's upcoming film Ferrari) to star as Neil McCauley, a younger version of Robert De Niro's character from the original Heat. A source familiar with the project, however, told EW the Driver detail was not accurate. Representatives for Driver and Mann didn't immediately respond to EW's request for comment.
Heat 2 serves as both a prequel and a sequel to the first film. The story follows McCauley, Chris Shiherlis (originally played by Val Kilmer), and Vincent Hanna (originated by Al Pacino) in the years leading up to the L.A. crime saga, and chronicles what happens to the surviving characters in the years after. It was one of EW's favorite books of 2022, and feels cinematic even on the page.
At a Tribeca Film Festival screening of the new 4K restoration of Heat last summer (where attendees were given advance copies of Heat 2), Pacino suggested that Timothee Chalamet could play a younger version of his character. Alas, there's been no news on that front yet.
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Co-written by director Michael Mann and novelist Meg Gardiner, this book is both a prequel and a sequel to Heat, following characters before and after the events of the 1995 crime film.
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