Almost 30 years have passed since Michael man directed a true masterpiece of cinema: Heat. The film not only showed the particular style of the director but also a stellar cast with some of the biggest Hollywood stars of all time and a brutal script that kept the public anchored to the seats of the cinema for more than two hours.
Twenty-seven years later, the film is still being studied in film academies and its protagonists continue to celebrate its existence, as has happened in the last presentation of the filmmaker’s new novel. It is neither more nor less (drum roll) of Heat 2.
The novel is a kind of prequel-sequel to what happened in the film and will hit all bookstores in August. Mann has had the collaboration of the writer Meg Gardiner and so far he has already won the Edgar award. But what he is actually achieving beyond awards is generating a gigantic expectation for what may come in the future.
Because it seems logical to think that if the director is behind this work, it would not be difficult for him to bring his adaptation to the big screen. We don’t know if the seventh art may need a premiere that can challenge the bar set by Heat, but thousands of viewers are already looking forward to it.
The presentation of Heat 2 took place at the United Palace Theater in New York where all the big names involved in the original installment attended: Al Pacino, Robert DeNiroproducer Art Linson… There was a feeling in the air that something bigger could be brewing, but is Heat 2 really possible?
“I’ve wanted to do something to continue Heat for a long time. There was always a rich background to these people’s lives before 1995, and where their lives would take them after,” Michael Mann confessed in the presentation. That seems like the starting point: the past of policeman Vincent Hanna (played by Al Pacino) and thief Neil McCauley (De Niro) right after everything that happens in Heat.
And now comes the big question: who will give life to the two great protagonists in their youth? Do Pacino and DeNiro have their candidates? Beware of Al Pacino’s specific response: “Timothée Chalamet… he’s a wonderful actor.” What’s the point of having your manager with the actor?
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