Austin author Meg Gardiner and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Michael Mann team up for a literary sequel to the classic heist flick.
Meg Gardiner has done it all. The Austin-based novelist has practiced law and taught writing; lived in California, Oklahoma, and London, England; won a bunch of money ona few decades before you could just win over and over, and then her daughter did it more than 30 years later. She's published 14 thrillers, won a handful of awards for them, and is well-regarded in her field.Co-written with legendary filmmaker Michael Mann,.
These were almost mythic figures and Mann wanted to dig deeper. He brought Gardiner along for the ride.to the big screen. While that is certainly his prerogative, there is something kind of wonderful about making the prequel/sequel a novel rather than a film. Movie tie-ins – let alone the dreaded"novelization" – have a certain low-rent air about them, but they certainly don't have to be.
Which is to say, when Michael Mann asks if you want to write this book with him, you do take a deep breath."It's a big ask," Gardiner says."But I've always wanted to write a heist novel and realized, 'When will I ever get a chance to write the heist novel of my dreams that's also something much more?'"
From the beginning, Gardiner said they were writing a novel, not a screenplay."This meant understanding everyone's point of view and giving their interior monologues a detail that was completely different from a Mann screenplay." And while Gardiner said it was impossible to keep the actors' voices out of her head while she and Mann were trading chapters back and forth,"those performances are so vivid and grounded and nuanced that I could see these people in 3D as I was writing every word." Which was a challenge, as Mann had worked with those actors and created these characters, so Gardiner needed to work to understand them as deeply as he did.
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