Jason Clarke In Talks to Join Michael Mann's HEAT 2
Actor Jason Clarke (Oppenheimer, Murdaugh: Death in the Family, Zero Dark Thirty) is in negotiations to take on a mystery role in director Michael Mann’s highly anticipated sequel, Heat 2.
While sources say there are no cast deals in place, Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale are also rumored to be circling, as previously reported.
The project would reunite Clarke and Mann following their work together on Public Enemies, the Universal crime flick starring Johnny Depp as Great Depression-era gangster John Dillinger.
Mann will direct Heat 2 from his own script, based on his and Meg Gardiner’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel. Producers include Mann, Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ Jerry Bruckheimer, and UA’s Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt. Eric Roth and Shane Salerno will exec produce, with Amazon MGM to release the film in theaters.
Mann’s classic 1995 crime thriller Heat follows master thief Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) as he plans one last score while obsessive LAPD detective Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) closes in, with both men wrecking their personal lives in service of the job.
via: Deadline