Michael Mann Gives an Update on ‘Heat 2’
In a new interview, director Michael Mann has updated us on the progress of the long-awaited sequel to Heat, his 1999 crime film starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.
At the tail end of his interview with Vulture, the magazine asked Mann for an update on Heat 2, to which Mann confirmed that he had officially finished the screenplay.“I just finished the screenplay and handed in the first draft” the director said. When asked who he had handed the screenplay to, Mann replied, “In this case it was Warner Brothers. Any more than that, I can’t talk about. But it’s an exciting project”.
Mann had met with the New York-based magazine to discuss Thief, which had a 4K Criterion Collection release earlier this month. Thief s a collection of Mann’s films on the Criterion Channel. When asked why he thought there was such a resurgence in his work, Mann replied,
“I don’t like to speculate. I think it may have to do with what’s in the work. I’m not a journeyman director; I’d like to be, because I love shooting. But I put a lot into a film, and so I think sometimes they have layers of relating. They’re not simple. They may be totally accessible — not all my films, but some of them may be accessible just as something that’s going to flow, just going to occupy you for two hours, or two hours and 45 minutes in the case of Heat and Insider — but there’s also a lot there, because my ambition was to put a lot of depth into it. I probably shouldn’t even be answering this question to tell you the truth.”
Heat, released in 1999, featured Robert De Niro as a notorious criminal planning his last job and Al Pacino as the police lieutenant tasked with hunting him down. Heat follows the fallout on their personal and professional lives and the strange bond that develops between cop and criminal. Pacino and De Niro had both previously appeared in The Godfather Part II but Heat marked the first onscreen meeting between the pair.
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