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Leonardo DiCaprio has confirmed that he will be starring in Michael Mann’s Heat 2, marking the first time in his storied Hollywood career that he’ll be starring in a sequel.
In addition to Leonardo DiCaprio, it’s also been reported that fellow Academy Award winning actor Christian Bale is in talks to star in the film. Additional rumored cast members over the years have included Austin Butler, Adam Driver, Bradley Cooper, Ana de Armas, Jeremy Allen White, and Channing Tatum.
There have also been reports that Al Pacino will appear in the film — Pacino starred in 1995’s Heat as Lt. Vincent Hanna opposite Robert De Niro.
Leonardo DiCaprio confirms that he’ll be starring in Heat 2, marking the first time that he’ll star in a sequel
“This is very much its own movie. We’re still working on it, we’re a ways away from production. It tips its hat to Heat, but it’s an homage, and it picks up the story from there. The book is already out there, so there are no big secrets that I’m divulging. It’s set in the future, and the past, from that pivotal moment in what I think is the great crime noir film of my lifetime, “ DiCaprio told Deadline in a recent interview as he gears up for his awards season campaign.
“It’s one of those films that just keeps resonating, that we keep talking about, that has been imitated so many times and influenced so many different movies. So, we’re working on it. But it’s certainly exciting, and I think I look at it as its own silo, in a sense. We can’t duplicate what Heat was, so it’s paying homage to that film, but giving it its own unique entity.”
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As DiCaprio mentions, production on Heat 2 is still a bit away. His next project is set to be another movie with Martin Scorsese, as he’ll be starring in his adaptation of the novel What Happens At Night alongside Jennifer Lawrence.
“It’s a work in progress. But what I do know is that Marty has this incredible yearning and connection to this material. I don’t know if I could compare it to The Shining or Shutter Island. I think he’s heavily influenced by films like Vertigo, in that the film that he wants to make is about human relationships, about the acceptance of grief, the ability to let go,” DiCaprio said.
“It’s a love story, but it’s simultaneously about accepting the reality that you’re given in this life. It’s going to be an interesting journey. We’re still putting all the pieces together, but Marty has a very firm idea of what he wants to do, and there’s going to be a lot of exploration when we make this movie, because it can go in a lot of different directions. But at the core is this relationship between a man and a dying woman. They’re put into a set of circumstances where we don’t know what’s reality and what’s not.”
DiCaprio’s most recent role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is expected to earn him yet another Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, in which he’ll likely be one of the favorites for the award alongside Timothee Chalamet and Ethan Hawke.