Michael Mann Says ‘Heat 2’ Will Shoot In 2024 & Is A “Prequel & Sequel”

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Mann has set his second novel collaboration with Edgar-winning author Meg Gardiner. After starting out with , a novel that topped the bestseller charts and hatched a movie that Mann is writing to direct at Warner Bros, Mann and Gardiner set up a new original novel that explores an intense global manhunt launched by a renegade federal agent and a stateless operator on a vendetta, in a highly authentic global arena. 

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. After premiering at Venice Film Festival in August and hitting theaters in December, Michael Mann‘s “Ferrari” will become available on digital starting Jan. 23, and on Blu-ray/DVD on March 12.

Todd Gilchrist editor Michael Mann’s 12th film, “Ferrari” was always meant to do more than catalog the achievements of a legendary racing team and its automotive parent. Even so, its story climaxes with a pivotal race in the brand’s history — the 1957 Mille Miglia — that required a tremendous amount of work, and more than a little luck to recreate.

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Michael Mann’s high-octane sports feature Ferrari, which was two decades in the making.

Ansel Elgort is back on the beat: Toyko Vice, which is loosely inspired by American journalist Jake Adelstein’s first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat, will return February 8 to Max.

While filmmaker Michael Mann helped “Tokyo Vice” get on its feet and gave the show its cinematic grammar, the series was always the creation of writer/showrunner and Tony Award winner J.T. Rogers.

Jaden Thompson AARP The Magazine has announced the nominees for the annual Movies for Grownups (MFG) Awards. “Barbie,” “The Color Purple,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Maestro” and “Oppenheimer” will contend for best picture/best movie for grownups.

Amid the flood of awards-season nominations comes AARP, whose Movies for Grownups Awards noms arrived today. Oppenheimer leads the way with six mentions, followed by Killers of the Flower Moon with five. Both will vie for Best Picture alongside Barbie, The Color Purple and Maestro.

Jaden Thompson Max has released the trailer for Season 2 of its original crime drama series “Tokyo Vice,” which will premiere on the streamer on Feb. 8 with the release of two episodes. Subsequently, one episode will debut every week for eight weeks.

Ferrari, a biopic directed and written by Michael Mann that explores the life of Enzo Ferrari, the founder of the eponymous automaker. With each event, this promo tour has proven very beneficial for all fashion lovers, as has dressed in with that take us back to the fashion of the early 2000s.Most recently, the film—which also stars Adam Driver, Patrick Dempsey and Shailene Woodley—was featured by the SAG-AFTRA Foundation on January 5.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Legendary filmmaker Michael Mann is “worried about the future” of movies. But, he also declares, “Cinema is not dying.” A luminary auteur with a distinctive visual style and gripping storytelling, Mann calls this time following the end of the historic Hollywood strikes “a real watershed moment.” “The companies are split in ways they haven’t been before between streamers and legacy studios,” he tells Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast. “Those interests don’t sometimes align.

Caroline Brew editor The Gersh Agency has appointed Matt Andrée Wiltens as senior vice president and head of global corporate communications. This comes as Gersh begins its global expansion plan following an equity investment from Crestview Partners in 2023.

Former Amblin and Paramount Pictures vet Matt Andrée Wiltens is joining Gersh as their new SVP and Head of Global Corporate Communications.

Adam Driver is fired up about criticisms of his recent role choices. On an episode of the “SmartLess” podcast, the actor defended playing famous Italian figures in both of his last two movies, “House of Gucci” and “Ferrari.” “So many people have been like, ‘How many Italians… ?’.

Adam Driver has had enough of journalists asking him why he’s played two Italian roles in quick succession on the press tour for Ferrari.The actor made an appearance on the SmartLess podcast with Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes on Monday (January 1), where the subject of him playing two Italian men in two recent movies came up. Driver played Maurizio Gucci in 2021’s House Of Gucci and Enzo Ferrari in Michael Mann’s biopic Ferrari.Speaking about how he hasn’t been very strategic in his acting career so far, Driver joked that the decision to play the two roles in quick succession was a “good example of not being strategic in a way that I probably should”.“So many people have been like, ‘How many Italians…?’ I’m like, it’s just kind of worked out that way,” Driver said, noting that someone on his PR team should have warned him it would “come up a lot” on the Ferrari press tour.“But I’m like, you know, it’s Ridley [Scott] and it’s Michael [Mann] and they’re in my mind some of the best filmmakers,” he said.

Adam Driver is opening up about his career and how he has not been strategic in booking his role and instead going by instinct to work with great filmmakers.

Adam Driver is tired of defending his recent roles.

Ferrari, released in cinemas on Boxing Day (December 26) – Laura and Enzo (Adam Driver) are arguing when she pulls out a pistol and fires it intentionally into the wall next to her husband’s head. It sets the tone for their dysfunctional relationship throughout the movie, which involves business disagreements and marital infidelity on the half of Enzo.“I had a lot of resistance to that scene and I actually tried to convince Michael [Mann] to do a version without the gun,” Cruz told NME in an exclusive interview with Driver and co-star Shailene Woodley.

Adam Driver’s been really hitting the pavement doing his best to promote Michael Mann’s “Ferrari,” a film he is clearly very proud of (and as a smaller Neon independent film, likely needs all the press it can get, as it only came out on Christmas Day; listen to our podcast interview with Mann here). And you’ll likely want to file this under, “duh, no sh*t,” but hear us out first.

In this week’s episode of The Discourse, host Mike DeAngelo gets in the driver’s seat to discuss “Ferrari” with director Michael Mann (“Heat,” “Collateral,” “Ali”). The film is based on the real-life of Enzo Ferrari, founder of Ferrari—the Italian luxury sports car manufacturer, who is played by Adam Driver.