Michael Mann was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Directed Brian Cox, Dennis Farina, and Peter Dobson in one of two roles that they each share with Anthony Hopkins, Harvey Keitel, and Val Kilmer. Cox and Farina played Hannibal Lecter and Jack Crawford in Manhunter, roles played by Hopkins and Keitel in Red Dragon. Farina and Keitel had both played Ray Barbone in Get Shorty. Hopkins was playing King Lear with the Royal Shakespeare Company while Manhunter was in production. Brian Cox was doing the same when The Silence of the Lambs was in production. Dobson plays Chris Sirhelis in L.A. Takedown, which was remade as Heat, with Val Kilmer. Heat was also directed by Mann. Kilmer played Elvis Presley in True Romance, while Dobson played him (except for the voice) in Forrest Gump.
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