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Originally Posted by flames_fan_down_under
Didn't know where to put this but I figured this was likely the best spot for it.
I am a huge Michael Mann fan, and this is a fantastic piece on him in the New York Times. It talks about his upcoming movie "Ferrari", his creative process, Heat, his attention to detail, also a book he has written called "Heat 2"...
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/20/m...ri-heat-2.html |
Crazy. I was just watching a YouTube video no the process of creating the original Heat. Mann had basically already made the same movie for a TV pilot called L.A. Takedown:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Takedown
A real life police officer that had advised Mann, during the filming of Miami Vice, told him stories about meeting a criminal he was trying to take down for coffee. That eventually became the basis for the story.
Mann had initially wanted to turn that into a grittier version of Miami Vice, but the pilot just didn't take.
After his success with Last of the Mohicans he was given a much bigger budget for another film and chose to remake "L.A. Takedown" into Heat.