Professional thief Neil McCauley lives by one code: don’t get attached to anything that you’re not willing to walk away from in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner. For a while now, it’s seemed as if the man who wrote those words was having trouble following them. Director Michael Mann has been working on Heat 2 for some time, revisiting the characters he created for the 1995 movie even though decades had passed.

But according to Leonardo DiCaprio , who will be replacing Robert De Niro as McCauley for Heat 2 , the new movie isn’t quite the rehash one might assume. “This is very much its own movie,” DiCaprio explained to Deadline . “It tips its hat to Heat , but it’s an homage, and it picks up the story from there.”

The original film pit De Niro’s McC

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