Michael Mann Biography

Michael Mann Kenneth is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer of film and television born on February 5, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois. He is best known for his distinctive brand of style in crime dram. He is from a Russian Jewish ancestry. in Chicago, Illinois.

Michael Mann Age

Michael Mann was born in Chicago, Illinois, the United States on February 5, 1943. He is 76 years, as of 2019.

Michael Mann Family

Mann was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a family of Russian-Jewish ancestry. He is the son of grocers Esther and Jack Mann. However, he has not given more information about his childhood.

He received a B.A. in English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he developed interests in history, philosophy, and architecture. During this time, he saw Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove and fell in love with movies. He later earned his M.A. at London Film School.

Michael Mann Wife

He is married to Summer Mann, they tied the knot in 1974. Together they are parents of four children. One is director Ami Canaan Mann and another a production designer, Aran Mann. Owns a house in the canals of Fort Lauderdale, Fl, which was used in some Miami Vice (1984) TV scenes.  Additionally, he has an impressive knowledge of criminality and police procedures gained through empirical research in law enforcement.

Heat Michael Mann

Heat is a 1995 American crime film written, produced and directed by Michael Mann, and starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Val Kilmer. De Niro plays Neil McCauley, a professional thief, while Pacino plays Lt. Vincent Hanna, an LAPD robbery-homicide detective tracking down McCauley’s crew.

The story is based on the former Chicago police officer Chuck Adamson’s pursuit during the 1960s of a criminal named McCauley, after whom De Niro’s character is named. Heat is a remake by Mann of an unproduced television series he had worked on, the pilot of which was released as the TV movie L.A. Takedown in 1989.

Michael Mann Miami Vice

Miami Vice is a 2006 American action crime thriller film about two MDPD detectives, Crockett and Tubbs, who go undercover to fight drug trafficking operations.

The film, written, directed and produced by Michael Mann, is an adaptation of the 1980s television series of the same name, on which Mann was an executive producer. The film stars Jamie Foxx as Tubbs and Colin Farrell as Crockett, as well as Gong Li, Justin Theroux, Naomie Harris, Ciarán Hinds, Barry Shabaka Henley, Luis Tosar and John Ortiz, with supporting roles by Isaach De Bankolé, Eddie Marsan and others.

Michael Mann Movies

As Producer Only

• 1986: Band of the Hand
• 2004: The Aviator
• 2007: The Kingdom
• 2008: Hancock
• 2011: Texas Killing Fields

Blackhat Michael Mann

Blackhat is a 2015 American action techno thriller film produced and directed by Michael Mann. The film stars Chris Hemsworth, Tang Wei, Viola Davis, Holt McCallany, and Wang Leehom. The film premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on January 8, 2015, and was released in theaters on January 16.

The Insider Michael Mann

The Insider is a 1999 American drama film directed by Michael Mann, from a script adapted by Eric Roth and Mann from Marie Brenner’s Vanity Fair article “The Man Who Knew Too Much”. The film stars Al Pacino and Russell Crowe, with supporting actors including Christopher Plummer, Bruce McGill, Diane Venora and Michael Gambon.

Thief Michael Mann

Thief is a 1981 American neo-noir crime film written, produced and directed by Michael Mann in his feature film debut. It is based on the 1975 novel The Home Invaders: Confessions of a Cat Burglar by “Frank Hohimer” (the pen name of real-life jewel thief John Seybold). The film stars James Caan the titular thief, a professional safecracker trying to escape his life of crime, and Tuesday Weld as his girlfriend. The supporting cast includes Willie Nelson, James Belushi, Dennis Farina, and Robert Prosky. The original musical score was composed and performed by Tangerine Dream.

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Michael Mann’s Next Movie Will Be About Hacker and Crime Boss Paul Le Roux

Michael Mann hasn’t helmed a feature since the 2015 Film Twitter fave Blackhat, but he might be about to get back in the game. Mann has purchased the acquired rights to a book about organized crime figure Paul Le Roux. The deal includes film and television rights to the book, which indicates a film or TV adaptation could be Michael Mann’s next project.

I’d really like it if Heat filmmaker Michael Mann would get to work on a new movie soon, and now perhaps he will. Deadline reports Mann’s book publishing imprint has “preemptively acquired publishing rights to a book Elaine Shannon has written about the transnational organized crime figure Paul Le Roux.” Mann’s deal also includes film and television rights to the book.

Now, there’s no guarantee here Mann is indeed making a film adaptation of Shannon’s book – adding film and TV rights to a book deal is often standard procedure –  but if Mann were to adapt this, it sounds like it would be firmly in his wheelhouse. La Roux is a former computer programmer and a former criminal cartel boss and informant to the DEA.

Per Wikipedia, La Roux “created E4M, an open-source free Windows disk encryption software program, in 1999, and is a suspected creator of the open-source TrueCrypt, which is based on E4M’s code.” He also allegedly ordered the assassinations of six people. In a way, this project almost sounds like a companion piece to Mann’s computer hacker thriller Blackhat.

Per Deadline, Shannon’s book “tells how Le Roux reorganized transnational hard drug production and distribution, the arms trade, military hi-tech, murder for hire, mercenary operations and more with 21st-century modalities. It is also a chronicle of the manhunt for Le Roux across six continents by an elite team of investigators from the 960 Group, a secretive element within the agency’s Special Operations Division. He was captured and charged with multiple murders.” All of this could make one hell of a movie, and Mann would be perfect to make it happen.

“Elaine Shannon’s book,” Mann said, “took me into the actual people and places, the language, and attitudes as powerfully as great fiction. Deeply and vividly, it illuminates the mind of LeRoux and the dark frontier of transnational crime.” Mann has been so swept up in the story that he’s attended several court hearings related to the matter.

The only question now is what Mann wants to do with the material. Since the deal includes TV and movie rights, he could always turn it into a mini-series or a film. It’s also not clear if he intends to direct any screen adaptation of the material, or merely produce it. Hopefully, it’s the former, as it would be great to have a new Michael Mann directed film to look forward to.