Michael Mann has revealed that Scott Cooper will direct his Western project Comanche , inspired by the story of Cynthia Ann Parker, a white woman who was kidnapped by Comanches as a child and later lived as a Comanche woman.

He was replying to a question on two long-gestated Westerns he has been planning to make for some time.

“I want to do a western. I have two screenplays, one of which I’m not going to do, I’m going to produce and Scott Cooper is going to do… it’s called Comanche,” Mann told a masterclass at the Lumière Festival on Friday.

Mann wrote the long-gestated project in the early 2000s with Eric Roth but the film has never gotten off the ground.

Actor and director Cooper currently gearing up for release of his Bruce Springsteen biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

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