The man is 79 years old looks like he's 60. He's currently filming a feature about Enzo Ferrari in Italy starring Penelope Cruz and Adam Driver. He's been there for months researching.

He's also going to release a third Heat installment in the form of another novel and says he plans to direct the film versions of his books.

God bless this true Hollywood legend...

CBS Sunday Morning interview

Detroit Free Press book review excerpt:

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The novel then toggles between both Hanna and McCauley’s origin stories in the late 1980s in Chicago and, eventually, along the Mexican border, where the men dance toward each other in the space of three different crimes: a violent and sexually sadistic home invasion and a botched home invasion, both being investigated by Hanna, and a frankly brilliant bank vault heist headlined by McCauley. It’s here some of Mann and Gardiner’s best work happens as the two men circle unseen, only their edges meeting. But we see it, and it’s thrilling.

The novel then jumps forward to follow Shiherlis as he attempts to carve out his own niche in South America after the events of "Heat," before eventually returning to LA in 2000 in hopes of exacting revenge on Hanna. Shiherlis lacks the noirish charm and wit, plus casual menace, that Hanna and McCauley possess.

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Posted on 8/17/22 at 5:36 am to Jack Ruby

Living legend.

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Posted by TIGERSTORM

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Posted on 8/17/22 at 6:02 am to Jack Ruby

I finished the book on Monday and really enjoyed it. It reads almost like he's writing a screenplay this was written with Meg Gardiner and it wouldn't surprise me if her job was to turn a screenplay into a novel.

I went to a screening of the new 4K transfer of Heat in Tribeca in June with Deniro and Pacino. Mann was supposed to be there but had tested positive for COVID in Italy while working on Ferrari so only a pretaped message appeared.

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