By Celebrated British actor Stephen Graham (“Adolescence,” “A Thousand Blows”) has reportedly been offered the role of a young Neil McCauley in Michael Mann’s upcoming “Heat” follow-up.
Nexus Point News broke the story, indicating Graham is next in line from the select group of actors to be offered the part in the highly anticipated project. He would play the younger version of Robert DeNiro’s character from the first film.
Graham would potentially join the talented cast that’s being put together for the film which, at last report, had the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale linked to roles but it’s not immediately clear which ones.
The new film, based on a 2022 novel, serves as a prequel-sequel hybrid that follows events in 1988 for Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro in the original) and Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino in the original), and a few months after events in 1995 with Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer in the original) in the tri-border zone in South America.
Thus, a guessing game is now underway over which role Bale might play as he’s currently 51 – DeNiro was 52, Pacino 55 and Kilmer 35 in the original.
Mann wrote the script based on the bestseller he authored with Meg Gardiner. Mann, Jerry Bruckheimer, Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt produce.
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