Don't you just love it when a plan comes together? When Empire spoke to Michael Mann in the summer of 2022, the iconic filmmaker told us his then-upcoming Heat prequel/sequel novel was "totally planned to be a movie," and "one large movie" at that. In the years since, whispers of that film coming to fruition have been rife, with names from Adam Driver to Austin Butler all tied to a follow-up of Mann's seminal cat-and-mouse thriller. Now, per THR 's reporting, we know that Heat 2 is officially happening — and what's more, none other than Leonardo DiCaprio is circling to star.

Pivoting from Warner Bros. to Amazon-owned United Artists to accommodate Mann's "one large movie" vision, Heat 2 is set to be produced by Top Gun legend Jerry Bruckheimer and UA's Scott Stuber, with

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