Michael Mann on ‘Ferrari,’ Writing ‘Heat 2’ and Making the Original: ‘I Could Not Figure Out How Val Kilmer Could Tolerate Being Val Kilmer’
variety.comClayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Legendary filmmaker Michael Mann is “worried about the future” of movies. But, he also declares, “Cinema is not dying.” A luminary auteur with a distinctive visual style and gripping storytelling, Mann calls this time following the end of the historic Hollywood strikes “a real watershed moment.” “The companies are split in ways they haven’t been before between streamers and legacy studios,” he tells Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast. “Those interests don’t sometimes align.
There isn’t a ‘Lew Wasserman’ figure now. There needs to be because this isn’t the end. These issues come up every time there’s a new modality.
It always precipitates this.” On this episode of the Variety Awards Circuit Podcast, Mann discusses the experience of making his latest film, the awards contender “Ferrari,” and how working with Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz compares to his other actors from past movies.
That includes reflecting on his work with Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino and Val Kilmer in Mann’s 1995 classic “Heat,” and what we can expect from the upcoming sequel, which is set to shoot in 2024.
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