What To Know
- Director Michael Mann accidentally shot himself in the leg while holstering a gun at a Los Angeles shooting range on Saturday.
- Mann’s representative said the injury was superficial and that he was treated and being released.
- Mann, known for films including Heat and Collateral, is working on a Heat sequel.
Michael Mann, a director known for films like Heat and Collateral, and to be hospitalized on Saturday after accidentally shooting himself in the leg.
Sources told TMZ Mann was trying to holster a gun during target practice at a Los Angeles gun range on Saturday afternoon when gun discharged.
“On Saturday, at a gun range, a weapon accidentally discharged while holstered resulting in a superficial injury to film director Michael Mann,” a representative for the filmmaker told TMZ on Sunday. “He was treated and is being released.”
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to Variety that Mann was hospitalized after the accidental self-inflicted injury. The magazine also reported the incident occurred around 4 p.m. local time at the Range L.A., a Westside indoor range that bills itself as Los Angeles’ “most exclusive shooting club.” The LAPD told Variety that Mann was in stable condition at the time of the call.
As a film director, Mann helmed the productions of Manhunter (1996), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Ali (2001), Blackhat (2015), and Ferrari (2023).
Other of Mann’s big-screen directorial efforts — Heat (1995), Collateral (2004), Miami Vice (2006), and Public Enemies (2009) — all grossed more than $100 million worldwide, according to Box Office Watch.
He has been nominated for four Academy Awards for his work co-writing, co-producing, and directing the 1999 biographical thriller The Insider and co-producing the 2004 biopic The Aviator. His screenplay and directing work for The Insider also got him two Golden Globe nominations.
On the television side, Mann won Emmy Awards for his work as a writer of the 1979 TV movie The Jericho Mile and a producer of the 1990 miniseries Drug Wars: The Camarena Story. He also got Emmy nominations as a producer of the 1980s TV drama Miami Vice — which he later adapted into the 2006 film of the same name — and the 1992 miniseries Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel.
Mann is currently working on Heat 2, a sequel whose cast is expected to include Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale, and Adam Driver, according to Variety.