Mystery/Thriller Michael Mann's Heat 2

[Pennywise]

Michael Mann’s Heat 2 'Already Underway' - IGN

 

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'Heat'-ing up: Michael Mann writes sequel-prequel 'Heat 2' | AP News

 

[GothamCity]

Cool. Cant wait.

 

[Slick]

Love the movie and I just preordered the book at my local Barnes & Noble.

 

[Pennywise]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/08/09/heat-2-michael-mann-review/
Heat 2 Review: An Action-Packed Page-Turner That Feels Just Like A Michael Mann Movie
Michael Mann turns up the temperature in novel 'Heat 2'
Review: Slick crime novel 'Heat 2' revisits a classic movie
How Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner Made ‘Heat 2’ – An Opus of International Crime
https://www.star-telegram.com/enter...ueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Michael Mann’s First Novel, a Sequel to Heat, Is a Work of Obsession

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Iceman]

Hadn't heard about this at all but I'm totally up for it!

 

[Pennywise]

Michael Mann’s Debut Novel ‘Heat 2’ Tops Bestseller Lists

 

[Doctor Jones]

If Mann wants to do it, let him do it. The question who you recast. I can see Oscar Isaac for Pacino, Christian Bale for DeNiro and Garret Hedlund for Kilmer.

 

[Pennywise]

Don't Worry, Michael Mann Won't De-Age Your Heroes in 'Heat 2'

Would you ever consider de-aging characters digitally like Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman for the prequel parts of Heat 2 that include the De Niro and Pacino characters?

I don't have any judgments about any other director, especially a friend who I admire like Marty. We’ve worked together in the past on Aviator, which I produced. But it's not for me. I just don't don't connect with heavy prosthetics or visual effect-laden things. I’d also have a problem with the movement of the actors. I mean, I’m 79 and I don't move the way I did when I was 39! I’m good. But not, you know, a teenager.

Human beings are extremely intelligent animals, but we are animals and we have all kinds of sensibilities and yardsticks in the amygdala that tell us this is true or this is not true, this is good or this is bad. I think people feel a lack of authenticity even though they don't know why, and the net result is that they do not emotionally connect to the movie. Unless you're doing some great comic book movies like some of the Marvel stuff—which I think is really good—you can't connect down that channel that opens up. When you're emotionally immersed in a character in a story, your hope is the movie doesn't end soon. That's why I wouldn't consider that kind of technique.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Smart man.

 

[Pennywise]

How Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner Made ‘Heat 2’ – An Opus of International Crime
Meg Gardiner: What It Was Like to Write a Prequel/Sequel to the Classic Film ‘Heat’ with Michael Mann

 

[Pennywise]

 

[AndrewGilkison]

So was Heat 2 an idea for a movie but Mann couldn't get it greenlit so he turned it into a novel?

 

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Michael Mann "Bored" By "Stale" Modern Action Films (theplaylist.net)

 

[Pennywise]

So was Heat 2 an idea for a movie but Mann couldn't get it greenlit so he turned it into a novel?

Don't Worry, Michael Mann Won't De-Age Your Heroes in 'Heat 2'

You’ve mentioned that Heat 2 will ultimately become a movie. Was that always the intention?

No, the idea was to write a novel and make it large and create this whole world with multiple characters and multiple stories. And that's what always attracted me to the notion of Heat, the movie, was to try and drop an audience into four, five, six, seven, eight lives, and then perceive the world through each of these characters. As you are rotating amongst them it's that person's worldview, it’s that person's idea.

For my sins, I was an English lit major with an ambition to write. Then I discovered cinema in my junior year of college and decided I wanted to be a writer-director. So to me, it's always been about writing. If I’m directing something, I’m writing cinematically—I'm writing with drama, with casting, with light and color and my directions to actors. The same is true with original screenplays like like Heat or Thief or Last of the Mohicans. So the writing was really primarily with the novel, but the ambition is to make a large scale motion picture.

 

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Can someone merge the two Heat 2 threads?

 

[Doctor Jones]

Vincent Hanna

Neal McCauley

Chris Shiherlis

 

[DarkKnight88]

Whoever they cast, it’s kind of got to be the equivalent of a Robert De Niro and Al Pacino coming together for the first time on screen together.

Two giant power hitters that have never shared the screen before.

Like a Leonardo DiCaprio and a Christian Bale could work.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Whoever they cast, it’s kind of got to be the equivalent of a Robert De Niro and Al Pacino coming together for the first time on screen together.

Two giant power hitters that have never shared the screen before.

Like a Leonardo DiCaprio and a Christian Bale could work.

DiCaprio I could see more as McCauley. The trouble is finding a Hanna equivelant.

 

[Pennywise]

I really, really like the idea of Isaac as Vincent Hanna!

 

[Pennywise]

Val Kilmer Would Love to See Michael Mann Make 'Heat 2'

Upon being asked which film from his long career he'd like to see revisited in a sequel, Kilmer was confident in his answer. "Heat would be fun," he told Vejvoda. "I love Michael Mann. We get along great and we have a great deal of trust…"

Sorry, Val! That doesn’t very likely at all.

 

[Sawyer]

I bet Austin Butler ends up taking Kilmer’s role.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Isn’t it a sequel and a prequel? So technically, Val could still make an appearance since his character survived. Not sure if his older character appears in the book.

 

[Sawyer]