The director wrote the prequel/sequel to his 1995 classic, starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Val Kilmer, in novel form, the best-seller turns into a movie.
michael mannwho co-wrote Heat 2 like a novel with Meg Gardiner last year, is in negotiations with Warner Bros. to film the prequel/sequel to his 1995 classic Heat as confirmed by the Deadline portal.
Rumors have been circulating around the possible film for a few weeks, and according to the aforementioned portal Mann was in talks with Adam Driver (the star of his next film, Ferrari) to play Neil McCauley, a younger version of the character from robert deniro in the original Heat.
The novel Heat 2 it 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 (Al Pacino) in the years leading up to the Los Angeles crime saga, and chronicles what happens to the surviving characters in the years that follow. It was one of the best-selling books of 2022.
At a Tribeca Film Festival screening of the new 4K restoration of Heat last summer (where attendees received advance copies of Heat 2), Pacino suggested that Timothee Chalamet could play a younger version of his character. For now there was no more news about it.
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