With the first trailer for Michael Mann's new film "Blackhat" now online, there's no better time than the present to catch up with his filmography before the cyber thriller hits (our retrospective of his work should provide a good starting point). But here's some trivia some of you might know already, though others perhaps not: the director's once had a very different duo in mind for his 2004 effort "Collateral."
Speaking with THR, Mann revealed that Adam Sandler and Russell Crowe were attached in an earlier incarnation of the movie. That's right, Billy Madison was almost in a Michael Mann movie.
"Nothing's wrong with Adam Sandler, but it kinda envisioned a—it took place in New York, the Jamie Foxx character was a badly written Jewish cab driver, with the kind of stereotypes that can only come from someone writing that kind of a character who's foreign, who's not American, that doesn't live in New York," Mann said about the development of the project...
