‘Heat 2’ is officially coming – and Adam Driver might play the lead
nme.comHeat will be his next movie.The director discussed the follow-up while speaking onstage at Deadline’s Contenders London event on Sunday (October 8), where he confirmed it will be his next movie after Ferrari starring Adam Driver.Asked if the sequel, based on the follow-up novel released last year, will be his next project, Mann said: “Yes.
Meg Gardiner and myself wrote the novel Heat 2, which came out right when we were shooting Ferrari. It did very well. I plan to shoot that next.”The director was also asked about reuniting with Driver on Heat 2 following reports that he was in talks to play the young Neil McCauley, who was originally played by Robert De Niro.When asked about the possibility of teaming up with Driver again, the director replied: “Perhaps.
We don’t talk about that yet.“Let me put it this way: Adam and I got along like a house on fire [on Ferrari]. We have the same work ethic – which is pretty intense.
We like each other, and we had a great time working together artistically.”In July last year, Mann said he planned to adapt the sequel novel into a “very large ambitious movie” – but it was unclear when he would start shooting it.Heat 2 serves as both a prequel and sequel to the 1995 crime epic, which starred De Niro as McCauley, Val Kilmer as Chris Shiherlis and Al Pacino as Vincent Hanna.
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