Michael Mann on Why ‘Ferrari’ Star Adam Driver Is the Ultimate Muse

TheWrap magazine: “I knew the first time I met him after about 10 minutes that he’s the guy to go on this journey,” the legendary filmmaker says

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Michael Mann (Getty Images)

There’s no measuring the degree to which director Michael Mann’s work has slipped into our American pop subconscious, whether it’s visual lifts from his classic “Heat” shootout in “The Dark Knight,” or FX’s “The Bear” using his 2006 film remake of his own TV hit “Miami Vice” as a comic throwaway bit for Cousin Richie’s security password. Beginning with his James Caan-starring debut flick “Thief,” Mann’s sensitive, masculine tone dramas cover an impressive range. He’s widely known for his searing transformations of actors we thought we knew, physically and emotionally: Russell Crowe (“The Insider”), Will Smith (“Ali”), Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx (“Collateral”), Daniel Day-Lewis (“The Last of the Mohicans”) and in one of cinema’s longest-awaited tête-à-têtes, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro (“Heat”).

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