Books: Heat lives on! New Michael Mann novel to serve as prequel and sequel to his crime film masterpiece

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The beloved writer-director, who hasn't made a film since 2015's Blackhat, announced Wednesday that Aug. 9 will see the release of Heat 2, a novel from him and Edgar-winner Meg Gardiner that will serve as both a prequel and sequel to Mann's action-crime masterpiece, 1995's Heat.

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"When I was writing the film, it was imperative for me to create complete life stories about all the characters and to know everything about them," Mann tells Deadline. "It's been my intention for a long time to do the further stories of Heat. There was always a rich history or back-story about the events in these people's lives before 1995 in Heat and projection of where their lives would take them after."



The L.A.-set heist film centered on a game of cat-and-mouse between expert thief Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) and dogged detective Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino). The loaded cast also included Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Amy Brenneman, Danny Trejo, Jon Voight, Ashley Judd, and Natalie Portman, but Heat's No. 1 draw was Pacino and De Niro sharing the screen for the first time. They wouldn't come face-to-face until 90 minutes in, when Hanna pulls over McCauley and asks to buy him a cup of coffee. What ensues is a simple six-minute sequence of two men drinking coffee at a diner, exchanging philosophies and dreams, and yet it's like a heavyweight fight filled with mutual respect, resulting in a scene that will forever be on film's Mount Rushmore.


According to Deadline, Heat 2 will begin "one day after the events of the film, with a wounded Chris Shiherlis (Kilmer) desperate to escape L.A. The story moves to both the six years preceding the heist and the years immediately following it, featuring new characters and new worlds of high-end professional crime, with highly cinematic action sequences." In addition to Chris, the characters of Hanna, McCauley, Charlene (Judd), Nate (Voight), Trejo (Trejo), and Kelso (Tom Noonan) will be major factors in the story.

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Michael Mann Says 'Heat' Prequel/Sequel Novel Is Coming Summer 2022 & Dispels Old Casting Rumors

In a recent podcast, Michael Mann opened up about all those old "Heat" rumors and explains why he is writing a prequel/sequel novel.

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Michael Mann Says ‘Heat’ Prequel/Sequel Novel Is Coming Summer 2022 & Dispels Old Casting Rumors
Edward Davis

November 2, 2021 1:49 pm




The Rewatchables podcast is no stranger to talking about Michael Mann‘s iconic crime film, “Heat.” In fact, they’ve already talked about it twice. However, for the third round, dubbed “ThreeHeat,” the hosts actually have Mann himself on to discuss his landmark film and the filmmaker’s plans for future “Heat” stories.

During the discussion, there isn’t a lot of news about the 1995 film, and Mann shuts down pretty much every one of the casting rumors, including the talk of Keanu Reeves as Val Kilmer’s Chris Shiherlis character and Michael Madsen originally being cast. About the closest Mann comes to revealing anything is when he’s asked if he regrets not putting James Caan in “Heat,” and the answer is “not really,” with a pause. That said, Mann does talk about his regrets of never working with him again after they collaborated on 1981’s “Thief.”



There is one casual aside that Mann throws out not on their rumor list. Kate Winslet auditioned for the role that Natalie Portman got in “Heat,” as Al Pacino’s daughter (Portman was 14 at the time, Winslet would have been 20 in 1995). “That was a very tough choice,” he said.

Another interesting aside, that’s part of the legend for those that know the creation of “Heat” super well, Al Pacino’s Lieutenant Vincent Hanna character had a cocaine addiction in the earlier versions of the movie, but that was eventually taken out (though the Rewatchables hosts seem to suggest this is maybe why Pacino is kind of overacting or may explain his, shall we say, very animated choices).

While the cocaine sub-plot wasn’t in the finished film, Mann explained knowing every little bit about the backstories of his “Heat” characters.


“I have a complete biography of Vincent Hanna, from when he grew up in Illinois, who his father was, driving trucks for some rural Illinois bootleggers, and how he wanted to flee for something else and it was either go to some lousy local college, but instead he joins the Marines and winds up [part of]Tet Offensive in Vietnam,” Mann explained. “And then what he sees there and his desire to go to law school… then he joins the Chicago police department.”

“What he really wants in his life is discovering a pursuit,” Mann added, about discovering his committed drive in life and how it connects to a line in the “Heat” movie here Pacino says to his wife, “I’m not who you want Justine, all I am is who I’m going after.”

Mann explained details about Val Kilmer’s Chris, and Robert De Niro’s Neil McCauley character and said all of that backstory is going into the “Heat” prequel and sequel he’s been talking up for years. “It’s so vivid, worked out and thorough that compelled us… we’ve written a novel,” Mann said. “Not on ‘Heat,’ but everything preceding ‘Heat’ and everything following ‘Heat’ and it’s because these characters are so vivid. It’ll be coming out next summer.”

 

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His prequel pre-jail would be dope to learn.

 

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

NEW YORK (AP) — Decades after the release of Michael Mann’s “Heat,” the classic crime thriller has endured in the minds of fans, critics, peers and the director himself.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Decades after the release of Michael Mann’s “Heat,” the classic crime thriller has endured in the minds of fans, critics, peers and the director himself.
He had so much left to say.

“There's always the sense of being shortchanged,” Mann said during a Zoom interview from his apartment in Modena, Italy, where he is currently working on “Ferrari," starring Adam Driver as the race car driver-auto magnate. “I love doing the research and building these characters out very, very completely, and rooting the actor into a whole life. ... The movie is a splinter, it's just a very narrow slice of a complete life."

Mann has finally rounded out the story from his 1995 movie. He has brought back the lethal, calculating criminal Neil McCauley, played by Robert De Niro; the swaggering detective Vincent Hanna, played by Al Pacino; and such supporting characters as Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer), Michael Cheritto (Tom Sizemore) and Nate (Jon Voight).
He does hope to make another “Heat” movie, but he has chosen to introduce his new narrative through words only, the novel “Heat 2."

Written with the award-winning crime novelist Meg Gardiner and scheduled to come out Aug. 9, the 480-page “Heat 2” is a sequel and prequel, looking back to the late 1980s and ahead to the 21st century, expanding the world of McCauley and Hanna and Shiherlis among others, adding new characters and moving the action everywhere from Los Angeles to Paraguay and Asia.

Mann had never attempted a novel before and finally tried in part for a similar reason he takes on a given film: To see if he can. In some ways, he approached the book as if planning a movie production. He began with a basic story — he likes to know in advance how the plot turns out — and built the narrative outward, over time and space. For his novel, he speaks of creating “momentum that is almost cinematic,” a symphony driving to a closing clash.

“Heat 2” permitted him to explore and digress in ways he wouldn't attempt on screen. He makes a point of knowing everyone's inner and outer lives. McCauley, for instance, he sees as a longtime outsider, institutionalized in his early teens. He sees him as “very intelligent,” with a “really strong ego and very little self esteem.” An ideal criminal.


“He goes to violence, immediately, zero to 60,” Mann explains.

“Heat,” among the most celebrated movies never to receive an Oscar nomination, has a base of obsessive admirers. After a special screening in June at the Tribeca Film Festival, audience members shouted lines from the movie during a panel discussion with Pacino and De Niro. Mann say fans often come up to him and quote from the famous coffee shop conversation between McCauley and Hanna, the first time Pacino and De Niro had ever shared screen time (They had previously appeared in separate time periods in “The Godfather, Part II”).

“Heat 2” is a departure for Mann, and from novels in recent years by other filmmakers, among them Werner Herzog, Brian De Palma and David Cronenberg. While Herzog’s “The Twilight World” and De Palma’s “Are Snakes Necessary?” are original stories, Mann is doing a kind of reversal, taking characters created for the screen and adapting them to the page. Instead of finding it a distraction to think of Pacino when he’s describing Hanna, he welcomes the merger of actor and character.

“They're fused. It's a fusion. They're one and the same,” he says. “Vincent Hanna is Al Pacino and Al Pacino is Vincent Hanna. Neil McCauley in 1988 is Bobby (De Niro) seven years younger. ... Since I made the movie and sought Al Pacino and De Niro and Val Kilmer, you bet that's who these people are.”

Gardiner joined Mann at the suggestion of their mutual literary agent, Shane Salerno. Known for her Evan Delaney novels, she is a “Heat” fan and a partisan for Mann’s film in the many discussions she has had with fellow writers over whether “Goodfellas,” “The Godfather” or “Heat” is their favorite crime movie. For “Heat 2,” she helped Mann with the book’s structure and otherwise proved a sounding board and close collaborator, the two eventually writing alternating chapters. Their time together — she lives in Austin, Texas, he is based in Los Angeles — in some ways mirrored the belated face-off between Pacino and De Niro, who despite being co-stars only meet midway in the 170 minute picture.

“We began working together in the depths of Covid,” she says. “We didn't get a chance to meet for a year. It was all long phone calls, and long emails back and forth.”

Mann, 79, has been working in film and television since the 1970s, whether writing episodes for “Starsky and Hutch,” serving as executive producer of the show “Miami Vice” or directing “The Insider," “Manhunter” and “Public Enemies.” He is a Chicago native who says his take on the world — “a certain kind of cynical worldview, I guess” — was shaped by his experiences as the son of grocers in the inner city. Citing “The French Connection” and its director, William Friedkin, as favorites, he jokes that filmmakers like himself and Friedkin who grew up in Chicago itself end up making crime stories, while those from the suburbs (such as the late John Hughes) prefer comedies.

“Heat 2” is the first of three planned novels (one of which may be related to “Heat”), and an ambitious literary beginning for a man who had never attempted a work of fiction before. He majored in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with thoughts of becoming a teacher, but decided that would be “really immensely boring.” Asked to cite literary influences, he mentions John le Carre, but otherwise says he doesn't read crime fiction. Instead, he looks to “primary sources,” the various killers, crooks, law enforcers and government agents he has met and befriended and whose stories he adapted for “Heat,” “Thief” and other films.

Critics and fellow directors have praised him for his complex narratives and gifts for pacing and atmosphere: Christopher Nolan has cited “Heat” as inspiration for his acclaimed Batman movie “The Dark Knight.” But some of Mann's favorite feedback has come from those “primary sources.” He smiles when asked what some of the real-life models for his characters have said upon seeing his films.

“I’ve been offered alternative careers,” he says.

 

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One of my favorite flicks...I'm interested in reading the prequel and the epilogue of the bank heist

 

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Is this book posted on here yet

 

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Ok this shit is on Amazon. So if nobody can tell me where to find it online (free of course) I'll spend the coins on it.

 

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Is this book posted on here yet​

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Anybody read the sequel yet?