‘Heat’ is one of those classic movies that has stood the test of time and also stands alone on its own as a full body of work as one of the greatest heist movies of the 90s, if not all time.
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I’m not really sure if anyone ever thought there was any need for a sequel after the events of the movie pretty much wrapped up all the plotlines, but director Michael Mann decided to release a prequel/sequel book last summer (don’t worry I’ll explain that in a bit) and is now looking to turn it into a movie. Adam Driver is apparently in talks to play a young Neil McCauley (that’s Robert De Niro’s character) in the movie, and Austin Butler and Ana De Armas have also been linked with the film.
Anyway, here’s the synopsis of the book:
Heat 2 was penned by Mann and Meg Gardiner and is not a novelization of Mann’s film, rather it tells the story of everything that happens before and after to the principal characters. The book jumps between two time periods, the first following Chris Shiherlis as he tries to evade the LAPD and Detective Vincent Hanna following the bank robbery gone bad and moves forward into new territory in the tri-border zone and Southeast Asia.
The second storyline takes readers back to Chicago in 1988 when McCauley, Shiherlis and their high-line crew are taking scores on the West Coast, the U.S.-Mexico border, and in Chicago. At the same time, Hanna is cutting his teeth as a rising star in the Chicago police department chasing an ultraviolent gang of home invaders. The fallout from McCauley’s scores and Hanna’s pursuit cause unexpected repercussions in a parallel narrative.
That does sound kind of cool doesn’t it, although I worry that it’ll probably be a four or five hour movie unless they split in two? Maybe it would probably work better as a limited series or something like that? Either way it seems like it’s coming and even though it’s 30 years after the original, if Michael Mann has still got it then we should probably start getting excited about it. Very excited.
For more of the same, check out Val Kilmer talking about his time filming ‘Heat’. Just brilliant really.
