Why does it take forever for every Michael Mann film?

It was also cancelled also because it cost too much and the ratings were low - the poor horses gave HBO a good excuse really - although they did commit to a 2nd season of it and it was just getting really good. That show changed television and will never get the credit - the first time a 2 time Oscar winner went to a TV series  (and doing his smartest work post-Rain Man for Godsake) - Hoffman set the stage for Oscar winners going to the streaming world (Spacey, Douglas, Penn, Pacino now possibly).

I think the problems tend to be in the writing - and some kind of writers block really. His best films were the ones with insanely layered and dense scripts - Heat and The Insider are masterful scripts and he owned both those projects (although he co-wrote The Insider) - those are not just  great movies, they are perfectionist examples of exhausting detail on his part. 

After that, he did all collaborations where he was less involved - except for Miami Vice which could have been tweaked to be tighter written film. I just think he has a disconnect between what he wants to say (and write) and how he wants then wants to say it (and direct it). He's lost a bit of artistic control over his stuff and that gets everything off track, including schedules I guess.

That shithead Christian Bale had to drop out of Ferrari and ruin everything. There were also a ton of rights issues with the book, but apparently Mann has them back now. Who knows if it'll ever happen.

I guess he's focusing on his publishing imprint now... the first book (which sounds great) is out next month. He's also in the middle of co-writing the HEAT prequel novel I think.

Reaaaaaaaally thought we'd have some news on Hue '68 by now.... not a peep since it went to FX.

Dude is 75..... needs to get something going quick.

I'm just waiting for a new Bennett Miller project.

I think MM is one of the greatest active filmakers. Insider and Heat were masterpieces.


I have watched most of his movies and really hope he is doing another one.


Imdb mentions a "Untitled Tony Accardo/Sam Giancana Biopic" but it's been there for a very long time and I guess it's dead.

I'm curating a mini-Michael Mann retrospective at my work next month. Finally going to bring Miami Vice back to the people.

It's because he puts a lot of Mann hours into each one.

Probably good for him financially but we would have lost one of the best movies ever made so I refuse to imagine that. It is such a damn tragedy that he may never get to make another movie. Maybe Netflix will save him?

what podcast?

The Mann joined Instagram:

http://instagram.com/p/Bt9kbNSBQDB

He's so cute and little!

here is a link to that mini-retrospective that yours truly has curated coming up at my work if anybody gives a shit: screeningroomkingston.com/cinematica/cinematica/

I think moonman is right.

Mann has lots of fans if you count Pacino/DeNiro crime and gangster film aficionados, people who lived through the 90s (ME!), and people who spent a great deal of their youth on IMDB.

But if you ask a common film buff, they don't even know who he is much less have any interest in his films.

I've always said that one of the biggest missed opportunities in cinema was an ongoing partnership between Mann and Denzel Washington. They would have been a more upscale/upmarket version of Tony Scott and Washington. Still wonder how such an obvious collaboration never happened, particularly since their taste for genre/crime films aligns.