Michael Mann To Direct Autobiography of Robert Capa Columbia Pictures and director Michael Mann will team to tell the story of renowned war photographer Robert Capa , using the snapshot of a torrid two-year romance with Gerda Taro during the Spanish Civil War. The studio has acquired “Waiting for Robert Capa,” a Spanish language novel by Susana Fortes, and set Jez Butterworth to adapt it. Mann will produce through his Forward Pass banner. He will also direct. The story begins in Paris in 1935, where Capa, a refugee from Fascist Hungary, met Taro, a refugee from Nazi Germany, met with the intention to become photographers. The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War one year later began Capa’s emergence as the most renowned war photographer ever, and established Taro as the first frontline female battle photographer. She was killed in the battle of Brunete in 1937. Mann, who last directed “Ali” and produced “Hancock” for Columbia, had long wanted to find a way to make a film about Capa and fo