Michael Mann greeted guests via video at a retrospective screening of Heat, saying he’d tested positive for Covid so had to stay away. Producer Art Linson and stars Al Pacino and Robert De Niro too…
in a story early this year. “There was always a rich history or back-story about the events in these people’s lives before 1995 inand projection of where their lives would take them after.” Reps for the publisher had a table piled high and were handing guests advance copies at the screening Friday night, part of thestarts just after the events of the film conclude. The first movie was so successful that it’s not hard to imagine a second.
During the Q&A, Linson noted that Mann didn’t lack the confidence to direct “but it was hard to get movies made… and he thought maybe another director could get it done. But he got these two geniuses,” he said, gesturing to Pacino and De Niro, and the rest is history. The screenplay, “If you read it, it kind of sounds like Bob and sounds like Al. It was almost designed for actors of this extraordinary level to do and they lifted the whole thing up.
“There was a scene where we were shooting in the Hollywood Hills with William Fichtner where Bob threw a chair through a glass window, and that night the studio came down to visit the set to basically say, ‘Go faster.’ Michael said, ‘Hey, if you keep me here any longer, it is going to go even slower.’”
The film also featured Val Kilmer, Natalie Portman, Danny Treho, Ashley Judd, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora and Amy Brenneman.
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