Deadline, Adam Driver is reportedly is rumoured to be joining the cast of ‘Heat 2’, which will be helmed by the original film’s director Michael Mann.
The trade reports that Driver would play a young Neil McCauley in the film, which Warner Bros. is in talks to jump on board to develop.McCauley was played by Robert De Niro in the 1995 original film, and the follow-up novel, written by Mann with Meg Gardiner, jumps between time periods – before and after the original movie’s story.The official descriptions is as follows:This new story leads up to the events of the film and then moves beyond it, featuring new characters on both sides of the law, new high-line heists, and breathtakingly cinematic action sequences.
Ranging from the streets of L.A. to the inner sancta of rival Taiwanese crime syndicates in Paraguay to a massive drug cartel money-laundering operation just over the border in Mexico, HEAT 2 illuminates the dangerous workings of international crime organizations and the agents who pursue them as it provides a full-blooded portrait of the men and women who inhabit both worlds.The film is far from production with WB reportedly in talks to fund the development of the potential movie that could offer some of the original cast to come back for more crime drama, too.More at the end of the link above.When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.@ THN - The Hollywood News 2023.
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