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Michael Mann Off To The Spanish Civil War
Cinema Blend News —
... office, despite a widespread assumption that the Johnny Depp-Michael Mann movie nearly killed Universal this summer? It netted $97 million domestic and another $98 million overseas, making it a higher worldwide grosser than District 9 . Who knew, right? So save the snark you intended for Sony, as they pick up Mann for his next project, a biopic about war photographer Robert Capa, who captured the Spanish Civil War alongside his lover and fellow photographer Gerda Taro. According to Variety the film will be based on the Spanish-language novel Waiting for Robert Capa , which ...
Michael Mann to Make Biopic About Spanish Civil War Photog Robert Capa; Will He Engage or Avoid Staged Photo Controversy?
/Film —
It’s been a couple months since Public Enemies came and went, so it’s long past time (as far as I’m concerned) to hear what director Michael Mann is doing next. There’s a good chance he’ll next turn to another period biopic, this time of famed Spanish Civil War photographer Robert Capa. Capa is one of the most renowned war photographers and his lover Gerda Taro is famous for being the first female war photog on the front lines; she was killed during a battle in 1937.
Variety reports Mann’s interest; his picture will likely ...
Michael Mann develops Robert Capa movie
The Screening Log —
Michael Mann is gearing up to develop a biopic about the life and work of war photographer Robert Capa, with Columbia also jumping on board. The film will be based on the book "Waiting for Robert Capa."
Variety says Jez Butterworth ("Birthday Girl") will adapt Susana Fortes' Spanish novel. Word is the film will also focus on Capa's two-year romance with Gerda Taro, also a renowned photographer.
Capa gained popularity for his work during the Spanish Civil War. Taro was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, and she became a famous battle photographer herself.
Mann's Spanish Civil War photographer film
Filmstalker —
... the photography though, his early life as a teenager saw him running from political repression and anti-Semitism, he founded the photographic agency Magnum, and he was a man who loved to gamble and court beautiful ladies, including some icons of the period such as Ingrid Bergman. Among his friends were people such as John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and John Huston, and his life was a succession of extremes. I can't find much about the novel in question, but the film, according to Variety through ...
Mann and War-Torn Spain
Hollywood Elsewhere —
Mann and War-Torn Spain The key phrase in Michael Fleming 's report about Michael Mann 's next film, a period war romance based on Susana Fortes ' "Waiting for Robert Capa," says that Mann "intends to make a gritty, low-budget film." In other words, I'm surmising, Columbia has told him "yes for but for a price." I think that creatively this will prove an excellent thing. Good filmmakers are always inspired by financial limitations. It's also interesting that there are strong similarities between the story, largely set during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s and dealing ...
