Director Michael Mann Talks ‘Heat 2’ Book, Making ‘Heat’ & More with Rich Eisen | Full Interview

[@louisguerra3352]

Michael Mann is a tremendously talented director. I have grown up with his movies starting with Thief, starring Jimmy Caan! His NBC series Miami Vice was a trend setter with style, flashy cars and music . The GQ look. Always love the shining car hood and wheel rim shots. Every Michael Mann movie is great from Ali to The Last of the Mohicans, Heat and Collateral Damage . One of my all time favorites is Manhunter. Til this day there’s no Hollywood scene better than the downtown LA shootout in Heat. Michael Mann you are a Hollywood Icon, a true Legend!! Thank you for your creativity and entertainment for the past 40 yrs.🎬💪🏽

[@podegenst0ner303]

PREACH

[@pepelemoko01]

Manhunter 1986 is the film,most FBI profilers say is the best portrayal of a serial killer .

[@jamesamick2945]

I also love a tv show called Vega$ which was created by Micheal mann or he at least wrote the pilot for it. Terrific show that is fairly underrated and not a lot of people know about. That's one of the first things he did in his career was creat that show.

[@pepelemoko01]

@@jamesamick2945 Can't remember seeing it but what a cast ? A Whose Who of 70's TV.

[@sukottoshinobe7360]

It’s the best LA movie in general. It shows real LA not typical spots or familiarity. He captured the sprawling universe that this city truly is

[@tylertilwick6852]

Michael Mann is, without a doubt, one of the all-time greatest living film directors ever!

[@andyinoregon]

I'm old enough to have been blown away in March 1978 by the quality of Mann's ABC TV prison film "The Jericho Mile," starring Peter Strauss. Three year's later I sat in a theater watching his feature film directorial debut "Thief," and thinking both James Caan and Willie Nelson deserved Oscars for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively. Everything that would be hailed as groundbreaking three years later in NBC TV's "Miami Vice" (a show Mann executive-produced) was already front and center in 1981's "Thief." Thanks for this one, Rich.

[@DMalltheway]

And he did the best Hannibal Lector adaptation in Manhunter.

[@andyinoregon]

@@DMalltheway Seeing "Manhunter" in 1986 changed forever how I heard Iron Butterfly's song "Inna Gadda Da Vida."

[@sldesign1]

I picked up the book a week ago. It's so weird/amazing to hear Pacino''s, DeNiro's, & Kilmer's voices, as you're reading their words off the page!

[@lstruggy]

Is Deniro still alive in the book and will Pacino/Val Kilmer be lead actors for H2?

[@powerbite92]

@@lstruggy No... and No. Mann's co author refuses to answer who should be cast saying that it is only for Mann to decide. Pacino said onstage that he should be played by Timothee Chalamet - but that was just him joking about the ridiculous nepotism in Hollywood.

[@jamesamick2945]

@ powerbite92 I'd prefer john leguizamo as hanna. He's closer to the age pacino was in 1995, and he to me would be terrific in the role.

[@GuineaPigEveryday]

@@powerbite92how does timothee have anything to do with Nepotism. Also the nepo-baby article is so childish, half the actors are not even that famous, nor are their parents, and most of them do good work unlike some actors who continually get work and are fucking awful. I mean some of the best older actors had family in the business, Nicholas Cage, Michael Douglas

[@Largentina.]

​@@powerbite92I'm confused on what Chalamet and nepotism have to do with each other.

[@AuctioneerElite]

Michael Mann is the greatest. Heat is the best movie & the book is the best book. One heat minute podcast by Blake Howard highly recommended to all heat fans. Michael Mann & Martin Scorsese are simply my top two filmmakers of all time. To be able to meet them would be amazing.

[@dustyjoe71]

Vincent Hanna: So you never wanted a regular type life? Neil McCauley: What the f°°k is that? Barbeques and ballgames?

[@morten1]

I had coffee with McCauley HALF AN HOUR AGO

[@Sicario-Gamer]

…Yeahhh

[@2URGSE]

First Vince Gilligan,now Michael Mann,keep up the great work guys !!!

[@williamdillard5060]

I still wish that "Neil McCauley" had gotten away and hooked back up later with "Sherlis". Together they form an even more formidable "Crew". "Heat" will always be the best " Crew" movie. For some reason my favorite part is while waiting for a call from Van Zant, Neil has Chris' wife under surveillance. After he busts her and explains to her the options he tells her " clean up and go home". Never once mentions it to Chris. That's a leader.

[@eddievangundy4510]

Love Michael Mann! Heat- and the frightening Manhunter!!!

[@Head-ck4hu]

This man has been screwed over by the Academy at least 5 times.

[@powerbite92]

They wanted a return to big cast epics and to reward big cast epics - hence Braveheart. The Insider won the Best Film and Best Actor Oscar. Thief was great but not necessarily an Oscar pick. The rest of his films were a little too corny and/or cartoony for Oscar picks. Ali was a bad film, disliked by critics. Public Enemies wasnt the high standard of Heat and Insider.. and Collateral MiamiVice and Blackhat were great for the fans and audiences.. but a little bit silly for the critics.

[@gioluvs1893]

@@powerbite92 Insider was nominated. It won nothing.

[@VenturiLife]

Mann is a genius really, and he's not making this for the mass-market really. Have to respect that. He knows the cast is key to success, like George P. Cosmatos with Tombstone, the right talent to tell the story... So interesting to hear that Heat pre-existed and was turned into the L.A. Takedown script, and was later made Heat in it's own right.

[@massapower]

It was originally Titled "MADE IN L.A." and then Retitled 'L.A. TAKEDOWN" after HEAT came out .. I have the original VHS of MADE IN L.A. 😁👍🏻

[@justayoutuber1906]

Heat is a great movie.

[@jellooowith3os]

That's my next read sorted. I thank you gentlemen.

[@gregfrank4297]

One of the top 3 movies of the last 40 years, cant be topped

[@rascalmatt6713]

You topped it yourself by saying "one of".

[@alistairmaleficent8776]

Michael Mann physically resembles an American Werner Herzog, and his films, although at first glance may seem very different, grapple with many of the same issues. Herzog pits his characters against nature from a global perspective, while Mann pits his against human nature from a very American perspective. I'd like to see a conversation between these two.

[@sj4632]

Underrated director.

[@RighteousBrother]

He's not underrated at all. He's rated very highly.

[@sj4632]

@@RighteousBrother Not really, I don't hear him praised by too many people.

[@Largentina.]

​@@sj4632Sounds like you hang with the wrong people.

[@sj4632]

@@Largentina. maybe lol

[@Largentina.]

@@sj4632 If you never hear Mann being praised then there's no maybe about it. You are genuinely the only person I've ever heard refer to him as underrated. That's just crazy talk.

[@Bertaut]

He's right about Mykelti Williamson in Ali - his Don King is absolutely magnificent.

[@dudagemcdooderson2974]

Tried voice note there, it didn't work! HEAT is the best thing ever. The book runs well, reads like a movie script but slows at stages to a book you can take in too. Good book! (Imagine Hanna shouting that)

[@sesomediagroup]

Epic Eisen Show right here

[@jamesamick2945]

I think John Leguizamo would make a terrific casting as hanna is a sequel sidequel or whatever it is that would be an adaption of the book. Because michael mann has said parts of the book take place in the early 2000s which is a little more than five years after the original. Some people have said Timothy chalalmat, but he's not even 30 and pacino was at least in his mid 50s when heat was shooting so Leguizamo would be terrific casting.

[@kumarsingh8760]

Brilliant idea man - John Leguizamo as Hannah. George Lopez could play McCauley and Lizzo could play Chris Shiherlis. Just spitballing here but I think could work.

[@Largentina.]

What a great idea! Especially considering age is the most important thing in casting. I think Niel should be played by The Rock since their age is similar. Again, since age is the only thing that matters here.

[@triangleman2k6]

Picked this up two weeks ago, can’t wait to read it

[@FatherDyer1990]

Love that Michael is diving back into the criminal milieu. Id kill for him to do his Sam Giancana/ Chicago Outfit biopic crime drama that hes been trying to get off the ground.

[@marcosdesebastiangallego8379]

Great director!! I would like this book were published to spanish language soon. Of course I'm a big fan of Heat and it will be interesting to watch how became to stealers and how they developed their lives after the first one.

[@VenturiLife]

Getting the actors to case the bank is a kind of method-acting essentially. So clever.

[@matdevineslife]

Legend!

[@JTMoney22]

One of top 5 movies ever made!

[@UMHurricanes05]

This book is fantastic!!!!

[@dudagemcdooderson2974]

And this is like the first thing I've ever left as an as a voice note but like he's was the greatest thing that's ever been because it was just like two men like chasing each other but who also had an equilibrium a balance like almost like a pendulum and then they that was a pendulum right it's wine between both of them swung if you will it was amazing it's the best film that's ever been written and I'm I'm reading the whole book now so it's amazing it's going to shut up now okay

[@Largentina.]

What language is this? Or did you have a stroke and an aneurysm at the same time while writing this?

[@frankwithya]

Sounds good. I should give it a read 😂

[@ToTheTopwithCarlosNavarro]

That’s what a genius sounds like.

[@dyeeman89]

Heat 2: Cast Josh Brolin - Neil Matthew McConaughey - Vincent Taylor Kitsch - Chris Michael Shannon - Nate Raul Trujillo - Trejo Shea Whigham - Cheritto

[@Largentina.]

I'm so glad you're not a casting director.

[@vova47]

IMO, ""Heat" is a masterpiece best left alone. I understand the nostalgia for its characters but any sequel or prequel will pale by comparison. We've seen it with "Sopranos" or "Breaking Bad".

[@You_Tube000]

Agree. They should preserve its status.

[@gabialbrecht1]

GOAT

[@stmartin17773]

at 24min "Blessed be His holy name"

[@rayw3294]

Are you saying Michael maggot is O

[@lineways5477]

Never make a second episode for the money especially if you don't need the money for the obvious getting graved soon. Why ruin a perfect movie. I will do the same as I did with 2 insert title here dont watch it ever

[@chrisgray2824]

When it's great Heat is amazing...but it's some spots where it's pretty cringe....still a good movie...but not this masterpiece I feel people say it is because of it...

[@dermotsullivan5603]

which bits do you think are 'cringe'?

[@Largentina.]

This comment sounds like it's coming from someone that doesn't know the difference between objectivity and subjectivity.

[@You_Tube000]

Uneducable

[@PointBlankChiWay]

1 of the best movies ever “Heat”🫡