Michael Mann confirms the development of Heat 2: “I hope to shoot next year”
Passing through Busan to present Heat, the director is currently working on the continuation.
Heat 2 Will he see the day? Since the publication of the novel, co -written by Michael Mann And Meg Gardiner, the idea of a series of the 1995 cult film took shape. But the director remains on three failures (Public Enemies, Hacker et Ferrari), and no studio has yet officially given the green light to the project, for which Mann asked for a budget of $ 200 million, which was revised at 170 million according to Insider Matt Belloni.
We read Heat 2 by Michael Mann, and now we want to see the film
The filmmaker was present at the Busan festival to give a masterclass celebrating the 30th anniversary of Heat. The opportunity to distill anecdotes on the film, and to confirm that the continuation was indeed in active development (via Variety) and that he had interrupted his work to make the trip to South Korea.
“I hope to be able to shoot in 2026. We are in the middle of it, we prepare the budget, the calendar, the casting.”
Michael Mann has of course not mentioned the latest indiscretions announcing the arrival of Leonardo DiCaprio on the project. A decisive arrival because it may convince Warner Bros. to finance it.
If we compile all the rumors that have circulated for two years, a dream distribution could carry Heat 2with DiCaprio in the role of Neil McCauley (Robert de Niro), Adam Driver In Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) et Austin Butler A Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer). Ana de Armas had been mentioned to play Elisa, Neil’s girlfriend.
All this remains uncertain, and the planets will have to line up for the film to be made and that all these beautiful people are available to shoot it. But the director, 82, seems to believe it.
In Busan, Mann underlined the unusable popularity of Heatrevealing that since the announcement of the suite, in 2023, “Netflix views went from 1 million to 17 million hours on the original film “. Variety also add that Heat remained for 25 years in the top 20 of the video division of Warner Bros.
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