Comanche: Michael Mann's Western Project to Star Scott Cooper
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Michael Mann, renowned director known for his work on Heat and Collateral, has been busy with a new Western project. During a masterclass at the Lumière Festival in Lyon, Mann revealed that he has been working on a Western screenplay for years, and it's finally coming to fruition. According to Deadline, Mann confirmed that Scott Cooper, the director of the upcoming music biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, will be helming one of his scripts.
"I want to do a Western," Mann stated. "I have two screenplays, one of which I’m not going to do, I’m going to produce and Scott Cooper is going to do... it’s called Comanche."
The Comanche project, written by Mann and Eric Roth in the early 2000s, is inspired by the true story of Cynthia Ann Parker, a white woman who was kidnapped by Comanches as a child and later lived as a Comanche woman. Despite years of development, the project never materialized until now.
Cooper's film Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, which stars Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen, has been generating early buzz. Springsteen himself was heavily involved in the production, even spending nights at the Stone Pony, the New Jersey venue where he frequently performed. White shared, "Bruce was there, like he was a lot of days, and he came out, and he kind of introduced me to the audience... I remembered, I am not Bruce Springsteen, I am just an actor."
Meanwhile, Mann is also working on Heat 2, a sequel to his iconic crime thriller. Reports suggest that Leonardo DiCaprio is in talks to star as Chris Shiherlis, a role initially played by Val Kilmer in the 1995 film. Heat 2 will explore the aftermath of the original movie, with a wounded Chris Shiherlis attempting to escape Los Angeles. Mann believes that the Heat franchise has a strong cultural presence and justifies a large-scale sequel.
"It’s sustained in culture. It’s known," Mann said. "I could delude myself into thinking that the whole world is familiar with it, but when you check out its prominence in home video for over 20 years, this thing really has legs. People are still watching it, people are still talking about it. It’s a brand. It’s kind of a Heat universe, in a way. And that certainly justifies a very large ambitious movie."
Stay tuned for more updates on these exciting projects!
