Michael Mann to co-write Heat prequel novel with Reed Farrel Coleman Mark this under news you didn’t quite expect to ever be reading, but filmmaker Michael Mann has announced he will team up with four-time Edgar Award-nominated author Reed Farrel Coleman to co-write a prequel novel for his landmark crime film Heat. The book will be published in 2018 under the Michael Mann imprint at William Morrow/HarperCollins. Mann wrote, directed and produced the 1995 film, which starred Al Pacino and Robert De Niro as a police officer and major criminal caught in a game of pursuit with each other.