Michael Mann Still Hoping To Make A Heat Prequel Movie

Few crime dramas are as engrossing and well-crafted as Michael Mann’s Heat.

Initially launched in ’95, it’s a real white-knuckle journey that includes best-in-class performances from Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. And that’s even if they barely share any screentime collectively. However after they do, it’s electrical. Toss in Val Kilmer’s gun-toting Chris Shiherlis, and you’ve got all of the makings of a contemporary traditional.

It’s small surprise, then, that Mann continues to flirt with the thought of revisiting Heat, main the esteemed director to pen his personal prequel novel. Granted, it’s nonetheless teetering on the verge of launch, however when it emerges, blinking into the daylight, it’ll chart the “youth of murder detective Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino), Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro), Chris Shihirles (Val Kilmer), McCauley’s confederate Nate (Jon Voight), and different characters” from Mann’s masterpiece.

And better of all? Mann is eager to develop mentioned prequel novel right into a film. When requested about how his e book is progressing, he instructed Deadline:

It’s a stack about 10 inches excessive on my desk proper now. We’re on it, and I’m placing time into that and a screenplay I can’t let you know about. However I completely wish to make a film of the Heat prequel.

Phrase is Michael Mann’s Heat prequel novel has been completed since *checks notes* January 2019, so it’s actually solely a matter of time earlier than we get a more in-depth look into the “youth” of Vincent Hanna, Neil McCauley, and Chris Shihirles.

Maybe most attention-grabbing of all is McCauley (Pacino), who lives his life by a tried-and-tested code: Don’t let your self get connected to something you aren’t keen to stroll out on in 30 seconds flat should you really feel the warmth across the nook. That’s lifted from Heat‘s centerpiece second, by which McCauley comes face-to-face with Vincent Hanna.

Right here’s hoping Michael Mann’s Heat prequel novel – and subsequent film, offering every part goes in keeping with plan – is ready to channel the identical electrical power as its beloved forebear.