Who can start a Michael Mann Ping List!Michael's not in the news very much, and he doesn't have anything lined up to direct right now. He might have gotten dispondent after the failure of Ali (gorgeous, awful movie), followed by Robbery Homicide Division's quick hook. I was hoping he'd shop RHD to HBO, try to re-cast it after Sizemore's arrest... but I haven't heard anything.
Mann's a producer on Scorsese's Howard Hughes film (The Aviator, starring Leo DiCaprio), but that's about all he's working on right now.
I spoke too soon. Mann is reportedly close to getting Tom Cruise and Adam Sandler to star in a film called
Collateral, which he will direct. The movie's about a contract killer (Cruise) who hijacks a taxi (driven by Sandler) to take him to his target.
Just read this tonight.
MMann rules! Thanks for some of the inside track. He did "The Keep" which I saw when it came out, was idiotic but had Scott Glenn to try and redeem it. Mann/Glenn you think I'm onto something? Glenn was great (om mane pedme hum) in "Vertical Limit" my favorite recent B movie.