Heat 2 may reunite Michael Mann with Christian Bale after 2009's Public Enemies. Deadline was the first to report that Christian Bale is circling for a role in the long-awaited sequel. It should be noted that the entertainment outlet has not confirmed that Bale has been officially cast in the movie, though. Christian Bale is not the only Hollywood actor in the sequel, though.Leonardo DiCaprio was also reportedly circling a role in the movie a month ago, but it is unclear whether he has been officially cast in the film. If Michael Mann manages to cast the two fan-favorite actors together, Heat 2 would be the first time two Christopher Nolan alumni, DiCaprio and Bale, would share the screen.What do we know about Heat 2? View this post on Instagram Instagram PostDetails about the movie are sparse as filming hasn't begun yet. All we know for now is that Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale may potentially star in the follow-up to 1995's Heat. If it happens, we will get a collaboration between the two actors that fans have been hoping for a while. Bale and DiCaprio share a connection that's almost 25 years old as of November 2025.Famously, DiCaprio was going to be the psychotic investment banker Patrick Bateman before Christian Bale played him in American Psycho. But there are several other roles that DiCaprio almost played that Bale ended up portraying. The Dark Knight Trilogy actor himself addressed his linked history with Leonardo DiCaprio in a 2022 GQ interview:"Look, to this day, any role that anybody gets, it's only because he's passed on it beforehand. It doesn't matter what anyone tells you. It doesn't matter how friendly you are with the directors. All those people that I've worked with multiple times, they all offered every one of those roles to him first."Then, Bale went on to thank DiCaprio:"So, thank you, Leo, because literally, he gets to choose everything he does. And good for him, he's phenomenal."Apart from the potential actors, we also know that the rights for Heat 2 moved from Warner Bros. Discovery to Amazon MGM Studios last month.Michael Mann teased the plot last month: View this post on Instagram Instagram PostFrench actress Isabelle Huppert handed Mann the 2025 Lumiere Award at that ceremony this October. But the highlight of that day was the press conference after the ceremony. There, he teased the plot of Heat 2, which would follow Chris Shiherlis (the late Val Kilmer played the character in the 1995 movie), fleeing the US, as he is the one who got away in the 1995 movie.The movie will pick up just a day after the closing minutes of Heat, and the plot will juggle before and after the 1995 film. Therefore, it seems that the movie is an adaptation of 2023's Heat 2, authored by Meg Gardiner and Michael Mann. The synopsis of this novel on the HarperCollins website reads:"One day after the end of Heat, Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer) is holed up in Koreatown, wounded, half delirious, and desperately trying to escape LA. Hunting him is LAPD detective Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino). Hours earlier, Hanna killed Shiherlis’s brother in arms Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) in a gunfight under the strobe lights at the foot of an LAX runway. Now Hanna’s determined to capture or kill Shiherlis, the last survivor of McCauley’s crew, before he ghosts out of the city."The synopsis further continues:"In 1988, seven years earlier, McCauley, Shiherlis, and their highline crew are taking scores on the West Coast, the US-Mexican border, and now in Chicago. Driven, daring, they’re pulling in money and living vivid lives. And Chicago homicide detective Vincent Hanna—a man unreconciled with his history—is following his calling, the pursuit of armed and dangerous men into the dark and wild places, hunting an ultraviolent gang of home invaders. Meanwhile, the fallout from McCauley’s scores and Hanna’s pursuit cause unexpected repercussions in a parallel narrative, driving through the years following Heat." View this post on Instagram Instagram PostHeat 2 does not have a release date as the team hasn't started production yet. But we can expect to hear more about the project in the coming months as filming is expected to start sometime in 2026.