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Mann to take on Capa
By Adnan Tezer Oct 6, 2009, 0:17 GMT
Columbia Pictures and director Michael Mann will join forces to tell the story of renowned war photographer Robert Capa, with a focus on his two-year romance with fellow photographer Gerda Taro during the Spanish Civil War.
The studio has acquired the Spanish-language novel "Waiting for Robert Capa," by Spain's Susana Fortes, and hired Jez Butterworth to adapt it.
Mann had long wanted to make a film about Capa and found his way in through the Fortes novel.
According to Variety, Mann will produce through his Forward Pass production company.
The story begins in Paris in 1935, where Capa, a refugee from fascist Hungary, met Taro, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany. The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War a year later began Capa's rise as the most famous war photographer ever and established Taro as the first frontline female battle photographer. She was killed in the Battle of Brunete in 1937.
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