Gemma Arterton Says She'll Co-Star With Andrew Garfield In Michael Mann's 'Capa'

Gemma Arterton Says She’ll Co-Star With Andrew Garfield In Michael Mann’s ‘Capa’

Michael Mannmay run behind Guillermo Del Toro in the race for ‘most possible projects’ but at this point I think he’s neck and neck with Lee Daniels for second place. The filmmaker has anumber of potential new filmsin the works in addition to his HBO showLuck:Agincourt, which takes place at the famous battle of the same name,Chicago mobster movieBig Tuna, and, possibly, a new film version of For Whom the Bell Tolls.

And then there’sCapa, based on the life of war photographerRobert Capa, in particular the short romance he shared withGerda Taro, also a photographer. Now it seems likeGemma Artertonis set for the latter role, withAndrew Garfielda possible actor to play Mr. Capa.

Speaking toTotal Film(viaThe Playlist) Gemma Arterton said "

I’m aiming for even more diversity. Capa [biopic about the combat photographer Robert Capa] is confirmed, so I should be working with your hottest actor, Andy Garfield! [Garfield is lined up to play Capa, Arterton plays his partner, Gerda Taro, the first female photojournalist to cover the front lines of a war] and of course there’s Clash 2…

(Eva Green was once slated for the role of Gerda Taro.)

The film will be based on the novelWaiting For Robert Capa, following the two-year romance between the photographers that began in 1935 in Paris and ended at the Battle of Brunnete.Jez Butterworthis writing the script.

Waiting for Robert Capa is based in the love story and professional relationship between a young German woman called Gerta Pohorylle and a young Hungarian man called Endre Friedmann since they met in Paris in 1935 until she died in the Spanish Civil war in 1937. Both communists, Jewish, exiled and photographers, they decided to change their names to sell better their works and so became Gerda Taro (as an hommage to the Japanese Taro Okamoto) and Robert Capa (a mix of Robert Taylor and Frank Capra, so he could seem an American photographer). With these new identities, they arrived to Spain to inform about the Civil War.

Love, war and photography marked their lives. They were young, antifascist, good-looking and nonconformist. They had everything in life and they put everything at risk. They created their own legend and remained faithful to it until the last consequences.