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Michael Mann in 2012

Michael Mann is an American filmmaker known for directing, producing, and writing various works of film and television.

Filmography

Films

Short films

  • Insurrection (1968)
  • Jaunpuri (1971)
  • 17 Days Down the Line (1972)

Feature films

Year Title Director Writer Producer
1981 Thief Yes Yes Executive
1983 The Keep Yes Yes No
1986 Band of the Hand No No Executive
Manhunter Yes Yes No
1992 The Last of the Mohicans Yes Yes Yes
1995 Heat Yes Yes Yes
1999 The Insider Yes Yes Yes
2001 Ali Yes Yes Yes
2003 Baadasssss! No No Executive
2004 Collateral Yes No Yes
The Aviator No No Yes
2006 Miami Vice Yes Yes Yes
2007 The Kingdom No No Yes
2008 Hancock No No Yes
2009 Public Enemies Yes Yes Yes
2011 Texas Killing Fields No No Yes
2015 Blackhat Yes No Yes
2019 Ford v Ferrari No No Executive
2023 Ferrari Yes No Yes

Television

TV series

Year Title Director Writer Executive
Producer 		Notes
1976 Bronk No Yes No 2 episodes
Gibbsville No Yes No Episode: "All the Young Girls"
1975–77 Starsky & Hutch No Yes No 4 episodes
1976–78 Police Story No Yes No 4 episodes
1977 Police Woman Yes No No Episode: "The Buttercup Killer"
1978–81 Vega$ No Yes No Creator
1984–90 Miami Vice No Yes Yes Wrote episode "Golden Triangle"
1986–88 Crime Story Yes story Yes Wrote 8 episodes,
Directed "Top of the World"
1990 Drug Wars: The Camarena Story No Yes Yes Miniseries
2002–03 Robbery Homicide Division No Yes Yes Wrote episode "Life is Dust"
2011–12 Luck Yes No Yes Directed "Pilot"
2012 Witness No No Yes Documentary series
2022 Tokyo Vice Yes No Yes Directed "The Test"
Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers No No Yes Documentary series

TV movies

Year Title Director Writer Executive
Producer
1979 The Jericho Mile Yes Yes No
1980 Swan Song No Yes No
1989 L.A. Takedown Yes Yes Yes
1992 Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel No Yes Yes

Unrealized projects

Year Title and description Ref.
1970s A film adaptation of Pete Hamill's novel Dirty Laundry
1980s Untitled film set in the Golden Triangle
1990s A film adaptation of Richard Preston's 1992 New Yorker article "Crisis in the Hot Zone"
Untitled biopic about Hollywood private detective Anthony Pellicano
Untitled biopic about actor James Dean starring Leonardo DiCaprio
Untitled biopic about Armenian arms merchant Sarkis Soghanalian
Good Will Hunting
The Inside Man, a legal drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio
Untitled film epic written by Shane Salerno about drug trade in Southern California
The Aviator
A film remake of the BBC miniseries House of Cards written by David Franzoni starring Al Pacino
A film adaptation of Steven Pressfield's novel Gates of Fire written by David Self starring George Clooney
2000s Untitled biopic of Julius Caesar written by John Orloff starring Tom Hanks
Shooter starring Brad Pitt as Bob Lee Swagger
Hatfields and McCoys, a drama about the Hatfield–McCoy feud written by Eric Roth starring Brad Pitt
The Few, a biopic about World War II fighter pilot Billy Fiske written by John Logan starring Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer
Arms and the Man, a film about Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout based on an article by Peter Landesman
Fortune's Fools, a crime drama about five officers who steal a winning lottery ticket from a drug dealer
A film adaptation of James L. Swanson's novel Manhunt starring Harrison Ford
Hancock, retitled from Tonight, He Comes
A film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls starring Leonardo DiCaprio
Damage Control, a sports drama about a spin doctor who represents troubled players starring Jamie Foxx
Comanche, a Western inspired by the Comanche capture of Cynthia Ann Parker
A film adaptation of Alexander Goldfarb and Marina Litvinenko's novel Death of a Dissident
Untitled 1930s L.A.-set noir drama written by John Logan starring Leonardo DiCaprio
Empire, a drama written by John Logan about a modern global media mogul starring Will Smith
Frankie Machine, a film adaptation of Don Winslow's novel written by Alex Tse starring Robert De Niro
Untitled film epic written by Paul Webb set in post-Communist Russia
A film adaptation of Susana Fortes' novel Waiting for Robert Capa written by Jez Butterworth starring Andrew Garfield and Gemma Arterton
2010s A film adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's novel Agincourt written by Benjamin Ross and Stuart Hazeldine
Big Tuna, a mafia film based in Chicago about the story of Tony Accardo and his successor Sam Giancana written by Sheldon Turner
Gold starring Christian Bale as Kenny Wells
Batam, a film set in the South China Sea written by Alex Sage
A film adaptation A.J. Baime's novel Go Like Hell starring Brad Pitt
The Big Stone Grid, a cop thriller written by S. Craig Zahler about two decorated detectives who uncover an extortion ring
Untitled sci-fi film
A miniseries adaptation of Mark Bowden's novel Hue 1968
A film adaptation of Elaine Shannon's novel Hunting LeRoux
A film adaptation of his and Meg Gardiner's novel Heat 2 starring Adam Driver
2020s A remake of the 2015 Korean film Veteran

References

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