After the announcement of Michael man‘s collaboration with the author Meg Gardiner on the director’s sequel/prequel to his 1995 heist thriller heat, rumors of a follow-up film swirled. Fans doubled down on this prospect when Al Pacinowho plays dogged Lieutenant Vincent Hanna in the film, announced to Tribeca that he would like to see him Timothy Chalamet to portray his character’s younger self if the novel were ever to get the green light for the big screen. On July 30, the writer-director finally confirmed this himself heat 2 is not just an intention – it’s coming, and soon.
Although not quite as delayed as a sequel with a nearly forty-year gap Top Gun: Maverick, heat 2 is nearly three decades in the making. According to an interview with Deadline, Mann always planned to revisit Hanna and master criminal Neil McCauley (Robert DeNiro) myth and said, “There was always a rich history or backstory about the events in these people’s lives prior to 1995 heat and projection of where her life would take her.” The HarperCollins novel, due out August 9, is an ambitious span of heat‘s past and future, investigating the six years before the events of heat, beginning a day after the credits roll. Breaking away from the original film’s narrow focus on Los Angeles, the lens explores the sprawling underworld of international crime, but still aims to get to the core of what these two noir archetypes, Hanna and McCauley, have become are heat. As ambitious as the novel sound, Mann made the sequel official in a post on Twitter, teasing fans that “Heat 2 is coming soon.”
Mann said of the upcoming novel and film:
“When writing the film, it was imperative for me to create full life stories of and know everything about all of the characters, including Neil McCauley’s early institutionalized years when he lost track of his brother before he parachuted in the street jumped. young, angry and dangerous. And the novel depicts a very clingy McCauley and the dramatic events that led to his dictum: “When you walk the streets have no attachments, don’t allow anything in your life that you can’t leave in thirty seconds flat.” , when you see the heat around the corner.”
In 1995, heat was the first film in which the two Hollywood titans went head to head, but only after the director had laboriously built up just enough suspense to reach perfect boiling point. The two characters were both larger than life and in the end they had to become each other’s undoing. Pacino and De Niro play two extreme protagonists consumed by their own lofty ideals, one a brilliant police detective, the other a master thief destined by the gods to thwart one another. Mann’s sequel will explore what metals and fires were forged by the men they ultimately harmed, and what safeties are left after their collision.
As a filmmaker, Mann strives to bring an unquestionable authenticity to his films. Drawing from real life, as in the real life of crime master Neil McCauley, he even attributes Hanna’s “restless ambition” to Mann’s own existential scrutiny in an interview with the New York Times. The director credits his father with the theme of cynicism towards the system in his work, and strives to make his films like those of 1981 Thief, miami vice, and security as grounded in reality as possible while still creating cinematic moments that cement his films in artistry.
heat 2 will return to the world Mann has explored in his mind since the late ’70s, with a conclusion he says will feel “both ironic and complete”. Fans will get a deeper understanding of the iconic Hanna and McCauley while also seeing where the end of is heat left McCauley’s protégé Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer). Check out Mann’s Twitter post and trailer heatunder:
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