Michael Mann gives major update about 'Heat 2'

Michael Mann has given a major update regarding Heat 2 after the time tested impact of the first movie starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.

Mann attended Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival on Monday alongside the likes of Eva Longoria, Michael Douglas, Michelle Yeoh, Catherine Zeta Jones and more.

There, the director shared an update on Heat 2, saying, “We have to have it finished very soon.”

Mann then reflected on why the original became a cult classic, sharing that he and the lead actors knew the movie would be impactful

He explained: “It’s all in the writing. It’s a very, very architected, very complex screenplay. It’s not supposed to affect you as complex. It’s supposed to affect you by taking you on this ride. But the structure has buried within it a feud… you’re 100% invested in Neil McCauley/Robert De Niro escaping.”

“You’re 100% invested in Al Pacino [Vincent Hanna] apprehending Neil McCauley at the same time. That contradiction helps sustain the memory,” he said.

He continued: “But we knew, to be honest, we knew the movie we were making, by the way I say myself, but also Bob, Al, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, we knew what this movie was, and then the movie comes out, and it has some impact… then it’s sustained in memory, and it was in the top 10 or 20 films in the Warner Brothers catalogue for years.”

Michael Mann also revealed that after Heat 2, he’ll turn his attention to a previously postponed movie about the 1968 Battle of Hué.