L.A. Takedown
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L.A. Takedown is a crime/thriller made for TV movie that aired on NBC on August 27, 1989 at 9 pm. It is written and directed by Michael Mann, and its ensemble cast includes Scott Plank, Alex McArthur, Michael Rooker, Daniel Baldwin, and Xander Berkeley. Takedown starred Plank as Hanna and Alex McArthur as Patrick McLaren, the character that became Neil McCauley in Heat.
Mann took his script and cut it down from 180 pages to a leaner 110. Some changes include McCauley's gang is not being fleshed out all that much. The Chris Shiherlis sub-plot does not exist, the bungled bank robbery sting is gone and Hanna's step-daughter's sub-plot is also gone. Mann only spent ten days on pre-production and 19 days of shooting. In comparison, Heat would have a six-month pre-production period and a 107-day shooting schedule.
After making The Last of the Mohicans, Mann returned to a 1986 draft of Heat viewing the T.V. movie as a dry-run for what would become the 1995 feature film.
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