Michael Mann will be tackling his long-anticipated sequel to Heat as his next movie, picking up the story where his hugely influential crime thriller left off. Based on a novel he wrote with his writing partner Meg Gardiner, the follow-up acts as both a prequel and sequel to the Al Pacino and Robert De Niro-led thriller, exploring the origins of their careers and the consequences of their actions at the end of the original.
As you might imagine from a decades-spanning story, adapting such a complicated structure for to the screen will no doubt be a challenging feat. But Mann tells the Inside Total Film podcast that he always thought of the story in screenplay form.
