{"id":315680,"date":"2026-02-25T01:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/315680\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T01:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:27:06","slug":"christian-bale-confirms-heat-2-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/315680\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Bale confirms Heat 2 casting"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 15 years after he shot John Dillinger dead outside a screening of Manhattan Melodrama at the Biograph Theater, Christian Bale is returning to the cool embrace of Michael Mann and the Windy City. Per Jake Hamilton of the YouTube channel Jake\u2019s Takes<\/a>, Bale confirmed he will indeed return to Chicago to film Heat 2, directed by Mann. \u201cChristian Bale just told me: \u2018I\u2019ll be back in Chicago soon for HEAT 2,’\u201d Hamilton wrote on X, the Everything app. We presume that Hamilton spoke with Bale as part of a promotional interview for the actor\u2019s upcoming monster mash, The Bride!<\/p>\n

Bale previously worked with Mann on 2009\u2019s Public Enemies, playing Melvin Purvis, opposite Johnny Depp\u2019s John Dillinger. Bale will star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, though neither has confirmed which roles they\u2019ll play<\/a>. Last fall, the movie changed studios from Warner Bros., which produced and distributed the original, to Amazon MGM Studios, which recently released the pretty good Heat clone, Crime 101<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bale has been among several names floating around for the sequel, based on the novel Mann wrote with co-author Meg Gardiner. The book, at least, is part prequel and part sequel. It walks the 1980s streets of Chicago with beat detective Vincent Hanna (played by Al Pacino in Heat) and Thief-style safe crackers Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro), Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer), and Michael Cheritto (Tom Sizemore), before the characters moved to L.A. It also zooms ahead to see what Vincent and Chris were up to after the events of the first movie.<\/p>\n

Heat 2 is expected to be out next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 15 years after he shot John Dillinger dead outside a screening of Manhattan Melodrama at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-315680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}