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L.A. Takedown is a 1989 American crime television film written and directed by Michael Mann. It began as a pilot for an NBC crime series, but after the series was not commissioned it was broadcast as a stand-alone television film. Mann later reworked the same central conflict between a police detective and a professional thief into the 1995 theatrical film Heat.
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Is L.A. Takedown an early version of Heat?
Yes, Michael Mann later reworked the 1989 television film into the theatrical crime drama Heat in 1995. Vincent Hanna and Patrick McLaren in L.A. Takedown became Al Pacino's Vincent Hanna and Robert De Niro's Neil McCauley in Heat.
Was L.A. Takedown meant to be a TV series?
It began as a pilot for an NBC crime series, but NBC did not order the series. The 92-minute project instead aired as a stand-alone television film on 27 August 1989.
Who plays the detective and the robber in L.A. Takedown?
Scott Plank plays Los Angeles detective Vincent Hanna, and Alex McArthur plays professional criminal Patrick McLaren. Their cat-and-mouse pursuit is the film's central conflict.
Where does L.A. Takedown fit in Michael Mann's filmography?
It is a 1989 Michael Mann crime film made before his later theatrical version of the same core story. It shows how Mann's television format developed into the larger 1995 film Heat.
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