Tuesday 24 August 2010

Mann to direct For Whom the Bell Tolls?

Geek Tyrant Article

Never believe all the hype. Mann selects his films slowly and carefully. Will it be the Robert Capa biopic? It remains uncertain as far as I can discern. See the below article:
... it was revealed that Michael Mann is still currently attached to direct an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's Spanish Civil War novel For Whom The Bell Tolls.

The project is being set up under the Warner Bros. production banner Industry, and has been gestating since 2006 ...

For Whom The Bell Tolls, most famously turned into a 1943 film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, follows an American who leaves the United States to enlist on the Republican side in the war, travels behind enemy lines to work with Spanish guerrilla fighters, or guerrilleros, hiding in the mountains.
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