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Michael Mann's First Novel, 'Heat 2,' Is a Work of Obsession - Vulture

Michael Mann's First Novel, 'Heat 2,' Is a Work of Obsession - Vulture

Michael Mann's First Novel, 'Heat 2,' Is a Work of Obsession - Vulture
Aug 09, 2022 2 mins, 40 secs

(I’m sure some steamy fan-fiction exists out there somewhere.) Heat 2 deepens that entanglement, revealing that McCauley and Hanna unknowingly circled each other in Chicago in 1988, when the former pulled off at least one major heist and the latter worked as a detective before his move to L.A.

In the post-Heat timeline, Hanna unearths some of the more redeeming elements of McCauley’s past and realizes that he can’t quite shake his obsession with McCauley and his crew even after their fatal showdown at the end of Heat.

(“Even before I shot it, I knew what Neil was doing at age 11,” he told the Times.) While some of those details made it to the screen in Heat, Heat 2 gives Mann an opportunity to show off more of that legwork, providing a glimpse into McCauley’s and Hanna’s childhoods, the specifics of their deployments to Vietnam, and a bit more about how McCauley and Chris Shiherlis (played by Val Kilmer in the movie) became each other’s closest confidants.

For those curious if McCauley reads anything aside from books about metals, Heat 2 explains that his personal philosophy was shaped by his time spent reading Camus in the prison library.

While these details are occasionally divulged in exposition dumps, more often they’re used to lay the groundwork for whatever set piece the book is hurtling toward next, such as when McCauley plans a heist near the Mexican border and articulates the assault plan in terms of Vietcong strategies he witnessed in combat.

The world of Heat offers him a big enough canvas to contain nearly all of those obsessions, and part of the fun of Heat 2 lies in watching its authors pull ideas and tiny details from across Mann’s entire filmography.

While the cat-and-mouse game between Hanna and McCauley anchors the film, it can be difficult to keep track of Heat’s many subplots.

Mann — who turned 79 earlier this year and is currently at work on his Enzo Ferrari biopic — has teased that a Heat 2 adaptation is already on the way and that it’ll be a “very large movie.” As for who will step in as Hanna and McCauley, Pacino’s got a few ideas.

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