Started By
Message

'Heat 2’ Is On. Leonardo DiCaprio circling to star

Posted on 10/7/25 at 1:43 pm
Posted by RLDSC FAN
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Member since Nov 2008
58749 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 1:43 pm
quote:

Heat 2, the high-profile Michael Mann follow-up to his 1995 crime drama classic, is getting a new home, ensuring that the ambitious and buzzy feature project will be getting made after all.

United Artists, the Amazon MGM Studios division, is in talks to pick up the project from Warner Bros., after the latter let the movie be shopped in August after not being able to agree with Mann on a budget. Hollywood vets Jerry Bruckheimer, known for high-octane action thrillers and the Top Gun movies, and Scott Stuber, who previously ran film for Netflix and is tied to UA, have boarded the project as producers. Mann and Stuber’s partner Nick Nesbitt are also producing.

The crime thriller is coming with plenty of, um, Hollywood heat, as a bevy of A-listers have been mentioned in connection with the project. With Leonardo DiCaprio circling, other actors whose names have surfaced include Austin Butler, Adam Driver, Bradley Cooper, among others. However, no offers have been made to that talent, let alone any actor deals signed.


quote:

Acting as both a prequel and a sequel, the sprawling Heat 2 story is set in several timelines. One follows a younger McCauley and his crew pulling off daring heists and living the high life. Another tells of what happened to Shihirlis, the lovelorn thief played by Kilmer in the 1995 movie, in the aftermath of the first movie’s climactic robbery, and his multi-year quest to reunite with his former girlfriend (who was played by Judd in the original). One part of the book is set in a lawless South American drug zone. And there is also an overarching bad guy more brutal than anything seen in the first movie, a murderer and rapist named Otis Wardell.


LINK
Posted by jmcwhrter
Member since Nov 2012
7643 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 1:48 pm to
Hope we can get flashback DeNiro in his younger days laying down the law on his crew

This post was edited on 10/8/25 at 2:09 pm
Posted by lsuguy84
Madisonville
Member since Feb 2009
26268 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 1:58 pm to
Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones to star
Posted by Gifman
Member since Jan 2021
17268 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 2:04 pm to
quote:

Leonardo DiCaprio


Sheesh... another white, straight male?
Posted by A12 Oxcart
On the float out in the Belt
Member since Dec 2022
1018 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 2:07 pm to
The book is a fun, easy read.
Posted by rebelrouser
Columbia, SC
Member since Feb 2013
12769 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 2:43 pm to
I forgot this was a book.

quote:

One day after the end of Heat, Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer) is holed up in Koreatown, wounded, half delirious, and desperately trying to escape LA. Hunting him is LAPD detective Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino). Hours earlier, Hanna killed Shiherlis’s brother in arms Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) in a gunfight under the strobe lights at the foot of an LAX runway. Now Hanna’s determined to capture or kill Shiherlis, the last survivor of McCauley’s crew, before he ghosts out of the city.

In 1988, seven years earlier, McCauley, Shiherlis, and their highline crew are taking scores on the West Coast, the US-Mexican border, and now in Chicago. Driven, daring, they’re pulling in money and living vivid lives. And Chicago homicide detective Vincent Hanna—a man unreconciled with his history—is following his calling, the pursuit of armed and dangerous men into the dark and wild places, hunting an ultraviolent gang of home invaders.

Meanwhile, the fallout from McCauley’s scores and Hanna’s pursuit cause unexpected repercussions in a parallel narrative, driving through the years following Heat.

Heat 2projects its dimensional and richly drawn men and women into whole new worlds—from the inner sanctums of rival crime syndicates in a South American free-trade zone to transnational criminal enterprises in Southeast Asia. The novel brings you intimately into these lives. In Michael Mann’s Heat universe, they will confront new adversaries in lethal circumstances beyond all boundaries.

Heat 2 is engrossing, moving, and tragic—a masterpiece of crime fiction with the same extraordinary ambitions, scope, and rich characterizations as the epic film.


Goodreads.
Posted by Flipadelphia
Member since Dec 2009
671 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 3:13 pm to
Posted by Jack Ruby
Member since Apr 2014
26430 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 3:56 pm to
I don't know if Leo will be the main star, but we'll see. I personally think he'll be the Nate character (Jon Voigt) due to his age or he will be some original character that was either a mentor to Denioro or Pacino, or he is the cop hunting Chris Sheherliss after he goes to SA.

Either way, this is going to be massive.
Posted by smash williams
San Diego
Member since Apr 2009
20916 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 6:13 pm to
Heat 2 has already been done, Den of Thieves was awesome
Posted by ChiTownBammer
South Florida
Member since Aug 2014
1413 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 6:39 pm to
This doesn't need to be done more than anything else doesn't need to be done. In my opinion.
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
155426 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 6:48 pm to
Of all the movies that could use a sequel, Heat isn’t one of them in the least.
Posted by REG861
Ocelot, Iowa
Member since Oct 2011
37776 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 6:50 pm to
quote:

Of all the movies that could use a sequel, Heat isn’t one of them in the least.


Well Michael Mann thought differently so he wrote a sequel novel , and it’s fricking good.

I’m not crazy about the Leo casting, but Austin butler as a young shiherlis is spot on.
This post was edited on 10/7/25 at 6:54 pm
Posted by Espritdescorps
Member since Nov 2020
2677 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 8:16 pm to
quote:

Den of Thieves was awesome


Ive been watching alot of Gerard Butler movies at the recommendation of the board and have been enjoying the hell out of them.. such fun movies.
Posted by DustInTheWind
Member since Sep 2016
452 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 9:35 pm to
The first Den of Thieves was balls to the wall.

Special Force Marines robbing banks.

Renegade sheriff off his hinges going after them.

Does it get more bad arse than that? I don’t think so.
Posted by meeple
Carcassonne
Member since May 2011
10808 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 9:47 pm to
Would be a great film for Tom Hardy.
Posted by smash williams
San Diego
Member since Apr 2009
20916 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 9:51 pm to
Yup, Marsoc vs MCU. We all know who would have won
Posted by cinemaguy23
Member since Apr 2025
289 posts
Posted on 10/8/25 at 8:51 am to
Please please keep this in the vault. We do not need this
Posted by SidetrackSilvera
Member since Nov 2012
2667 posts
Posted on 10/8/25 at 8:56 am to
quote:

Heat 2 has already been done, Den of Thieves was awesome


frick outta here
Posted by migui8618
Member since Nov 2023
612 posts
Posted on 10/8/25 at 9:06 am to


Can we not? Can Michael Mann not come up with new shite?
Posted by TheNameIsDalton
Huntsville
Member since Mar 2021
1468 posts
Posted on 10/8/25 at 10:34 am to
The book is great and Michael Mann is back to direct. Looks like a loaded cast as well, pretty excited for this one.
first pageprev pagePage 1 of 2Next pagelast page

Back to top
logoFollow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News
Follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram to get the latest updates on LSU Football and Recruiting.

FacebookXInstagram