‘Heat 2′ Lands โat United Artists,Leonardo DiCaprio in Early Talksโ to Star
A sequel toโ Michael Mann’s 1995 crime โฃclassic Heat is gaining momentum,with Amazon โคMGM Studios’ โUnited Artists division in negotiations to finance and distribute the project. Sources confirm that leonardo DiCaprio is in early discussions toโค portray Chris Shiherlis, the role originated by Val Kilmer in โฃthe original film.
The project had previously been with Warner Bros., but โdiscussions stalled over budgetary concerns, allowing Mann to seek option studio backing. Amazon โฃreportedly agreed to Mann’s terms, with plans to begin filming โคsometime โnext year.
Heat 2 is based on the 2022 novel co-written by Mann and Meg Gardiner,which expands the universe of the original film by detailing events both before and after the 1995 narrative. The bookโข follows Shiherlis’sโข escape following the botched bank robbery and Hanna’s pursuit, andโค also a parallel storyline set in Chicagoโค in 1988, exploring the early careers of Neil McCauley and Vincent Hanna.
Michael Mann, Jerry Bruckheimer, Scott Stuber, and Nick Nesbit will produce. Shane Salerno and Eric Roth โฃwill serve as executive producers. The original Heat starred al Pacino as Detectiveโค Vincent Hanna and Robert De Niro as Neil McCauley, and has since become a widely celebrated crime โคfilm. as of now, no offers have โbeen made toโค other cast members โbeyond DiCaprio.