After confirming late last year that he was close to finishing his screenplay for Heat 2, Michael Mann said he has officially turned in a draft to Warner Bros.

In a Q&a with Vulture, the stylistic director behind the Robert De Niro and Al Pacino two-hander said, “I just finished the screenplay and handed in the first draft.”

Naturally, the plot details of the highly anticipated sequel for the 1995 crime thriller will remain under wraps for a while. Mann added of who he passed the script to: “In this case it was Warner Brothers. Any more than that, I can’t talk about. But it’s an exciting project.”

Arguably Mann’s most known and lauded film — among many of his that have developed cult devotion — Heat follows a cat-and-mouse relationship between a criminal mastermind (De Niro) planning one final job and a lieutenant (Pacino) dedicated to his work amid personal troubles,...