Sequels, Prequels and Re-makes; The Good and the Truly Awful
together in one. Heat was a re-make of Michael Mann’s L.A Takedown which he’d failed to find funding for and simplified into a made-for-television movie. Following Mann’s success with The Last of the Mohicans he found no problem getting funding, backing and big names to star in his films and re-made L.A Takedown, bigger, better and bolder than the original and managed to get two of the world’s greatest actors in the same film.
Of course, if you’ve got absolutely nothing to add to the film in terms of plot or development and merely want to throw in a handful of current stars, don’t bother. If you do you’ll end up The Pink Panther remake that haunted cinema screens in 2006 or an entirely pointless remodel of The Italian Job that decided to make the classic British movie into a pointless vehicle for Mark Wahlberg and Jason Statham. Also proving a surprising
