In a conversation at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival, Michael Mann confirmed that he is getting close to completing his screenplay for “Heat 2,” and that he wants it to be his next film.
Mann additionally stated that after “Heat 2,” he wants to direct his long-gestating film about the 1968 Battle of Hué, one of the bloodiest chapters of the Vietnam War in which the forces of South Vietnam and U.S troops recaptured the city of Hué over one month of brutal urban fighting.
Mann had previously mentioned to Uproxx his interest in the Vietnam-set project, bsed on Mark Bowden’s “Hue 1968”, about the war’s turning-point Tet Offensive. I do wonder if it’s still being worked on as a 10-part FX series or has been reshaped as a feature length film.
Mann’s is coming off last year’s “Ferrari,” his first film in over eight years. His iconic films include “Heat,” “The Insider,” “Collateral,” “Thief,” and “The Last of the Mohicans.”