Leonardo DiCaprio Eyed to Take Over Val Kilmer’s Role as Heat 2 Gains Momentum

Things are getting hot in Hollywood again. United Artists, a division of Amazon MGM Studios, is turning up the temperature as it nears a deal to take over Heat 2, Michael Mann’s long-awaited follow-up to his legendary 1995 crime epic Heat. The project, previously in development at Warner Bros., is now in final negotiations to move under the United Artists banner. Mann — who wrote and directed the original film starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Val Kilmer — is back in the director’s chair and co-writing the screenplay, based on his 2022 novel Heat 2 (co-authored with...