Robert Capa according to Michael Mann

Mi, 07.10.2009, Constantin Xenakis

Director Michael Mann plans biopic of legendary war photographer Robert Capa.

Born in Austria-Hungary, Robert Capa escaped the growing Nazism of Budapest in 1933 and began his career by photographing the Spanish Civil War, later covering the Japanese invasion of China, WWII, the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, and the 1954 war in Indochina, where he died stepping on a mine.

Capa is know for saying: «If your picture isn't good enough, you're not close enough». Together with Henri Cartier-Bresson, among others, he founded Magnum Photos.

Michael Mann, the maker of «Collateral», «Heat» and «The Insider» has yet to find an actor to play Capa.