Michael Mann hospitalized after accidentally shooting himself in the leg at Los Angeles Gun Range

Michael Mann was hospitalized after accidentally shooting himself in the leg Saturday at a Los Angeles shooting range, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The director was reportedly injured while trying to put the gun away when the weapon went off accidentally, according to TMZ, which was first to report the news. The incident happened around 4 p.m. at Range LA, and LAPD confirmed he was in stable condition at the time of the call.

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“On Saturday, at a shooting range, a gun accidentally discharged while in its holster, causing a superficial injury to director Michael Mann. He was treated and is being released,” Mann’s representatives said in a statement.

Mann is best known for directing films such as “Heat,” “Thief,” “Manhunter,” “Collateral,” and “The Insider.” He last directed 2023’s “Ferrari,” a sports biopic starring Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari and Penelope Cruz as his wife Laura.

The 83-year-old filmmaker is currently working on “Heat 2,” the long-awaited sequel to his 1995 crime drama starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. The first film, a box office success, follows an explosive confrontation between Los Angeles Police Department Detective Lt. Vincent Hanna (Pacino) and professional thief Neil McCauley (De Niro). Mann adapted the screenplay for “Heat 2” from the 2022 novel of the same name that he co-wrote with Meg Gardiner. Described as a sequel and prequel to the original, the sequel looks at the early lives of Pacino and De Niro’s characters. The cast is expected to include Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale and Adam Driver.

“The characters in ‘Heat’ are so alive to me,” Mann said during a 2025 masterclass at the Lumière Festival in France. “An idea came to me, based on the relationship between two mortal adversaries, Pacino’s Hannah and De Niro’s McCauley, about how to do the two before and after the events of ‘Heat’.”

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