Michael Mann’s follow-up to Heat brings back characters made famous by Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.
Pacino was a big fan of the de-aging technology used by Martin Scorsese in his Netflix gangster film The Irishman.
De Niro, whose character is killed off at the end of the film, interjected, telling Pacino the novel was going to be set before the events of the 1995 film.
The book, titled Heat 2, is the filmmaker’s debut novel, and is a prequel to the 1995 film in which the actors play detective Vincent Hanna and criminal Neil McCauley, respectively.