Haven’t we been here before? Prior to the release of Michael Mann’s Heat in 1995, the buzz was all about Robert De Niro and Al Pacino acting together for the first time. Sure, they had both starred in The Godfather, Part II, but since their roles each occupied different time periods, they never shared the screen. After seeing Heat, many viewers were convinced the two Method giants had still never shared the screen. During the big diner confrontation between De Niro’s thief and Pacino’s cop, the actors appear together in only two shots, spawning all manner of conspiracy theories. The actors hated each other. They were never on set at the same time. One of them had been replaced by a malfunctioning robot that screamed too much. (Hey, it was one plausible explanation for Pacino’s performance.)
Now we’re hearing it again.
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