, which I didn't care for all that much, and a good four years since the last one I did like, The Kingdom
. He's been keeping busy, though. He's got the HBO horse racing drama, Luck, coming up soon which sounds great. And he's circling a couple of other projects as well, like an adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's medieval novel Agincourt
, and a possible biopic of war photographer Robert Capa. With all that potentially on his plate, Mann still couldn't resist the temptation of Gold, a "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
"style thriller about speculators on a hunt for the precious metal. Paul Haggis(Crash
) had been considering directing the film himself, but instead pitched it to Mann on behalf of screenwriters Patrick Masset and John Zinman. Mann dug it and took it on as a producer with the possibility of directing. Haggis will be producing as well. Whenever one of your friends badly misquotes the line about "We don't need no stinkin' badges", you have Sierra Madre to thank for it. I never read the 1927 novel that sparked the classic Humphrey Bogart film, but the movie stands as one of the greats, currently preserved at the Library of Congress. So if Gold is going to be compared to it, somebody must have some pretty high expectations.
