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EXCLUSIVE: Jason Clarke is being eyed to subordinate nan formed of Michael Mann’s Heat 2 from Amazon MGM Studios and United Artists, aggregate sources show Deadline.
Reps for Amazon and nan character declined comment, and what domiciled Clarke will play is not yet clear. While sources opportunity location are nary formed deals successful place, Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale are besides rumored to beryllium circling, arsenic antecedently reported.
The task would reunite Clarke and Mann pursuing their activity together on Public Enemies, nan Universal crime flick starring Johnny Depp arsenic Great Depression-era gangster John Dillinger.
Mann will direct Heat 2 from his ain script, based connected his and Meg Gardiner’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel. Producers see Mann, Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ Jerry Bruckheimer, and UA’s Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt. Eric Roth and Shane Salerno will exec produce, pinch Amazon MGM to merchandise nan movie successful theaters.
Mann’s classical 1995 crime thriller Heat follows maestro thief Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) arsenic he plans 1 past people while obsessive LAPD detective Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) closes in, pinch some men wrecking their individual lives successful work of nan job.
Mann wrote and directed that 1 and produced alongside Art Linson, pinch nan movie grossing complete $187 cardinal — what would beryllium adjacent to nan $400 cardinal scope if released coming — astatine nan worldwide container office. Also starring Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, and more, nan movie from Warner Bros. and New Regency has influenced generations of filmmakers and retained awesome viewership connected streaming and location intermezo for decades.
Published successful 2022, Heat 2 is some prequel and sequel — examining Vincent Hanna’s Chicago years, Neil McCauley’s earlier criminal life, and nan endurance of Kilmer’s Chris Shiherlis aft nan original film’s bank-robbery climax.
Clarke precocious wrapped nan thriller Ally Clark opposite Viola Davis, besides for Amazon MGM, arsenic good arsenic Tom McCarthy’s The Statement for Sony Pictures Classics. Currently, he’s shooting A Quiet Place 3 for Paramount/Skydance and head John Krasinski. Other credits include Oppenheimer; Murdaugh: Death successful nan Family; nan upcoming F.A.S.T.; Zero Dark Thirty; Mudbound; Dawn of nan Planet of nan Apes; Chappaquiddick; Everest; and Winning Time: The Rise of nan Lakers. He is represented by Robert Stein Management, CAA, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
