Has Michael Mann found his newest muse? After working on his highly anticipated “Ferrari” biopic with Adam Driver cast as Enzo Ferrari himself, it sure seems like that collaboration went incredibly well and directly informed the actor’s potential involvement in “Heat 2.” The follow-up story, which in the novel takes the fascinating approach of acting as both a sequel and a prequel, gave Mann the freedom to expand on the backstories and motivations of several of the main players throughout the action. Although (spoiler alert!) De Niro’s Neil McCauley is killed off by the end of the original film, that didn’t stop Mann from diving further into what exactly made such a fascinating character tick.
He explained as much in a new profile with Variety. Although he stops short of promising that “Heat 2” will be his next film after “Ferrari” (“I want to make it. But if I don’t, I won’t be incomplete,” he states at the very end of the article), he does shed some light on how he wants to approach the characters in the prequel/sequel:
“In the prequel, I don’t want them to be the same people that they are in the movie. I want them to be very different. It’s what befalls them — the conflicts, the tragedies that happen to them — that made them into the people they are.”
For Neil, it’s the events of the prequel that give him the gospel, ‘Don’t have anything in life you can’t walk away from in 30 seconds.'”
We seem to be getting closer and closer to “Heat 2” becoming a reality, with Driver being eyed to star. But until then, at least we have “Ferrari” to look forward to. Expect the racing drama to arrive on Christmas day of this year.
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