Michael Mann is back in the news, and there was a period where Mann pushed forward on a few titles before moving on, repeating the process once more and driving us faithful a little crazy. One of these was Gold, a prospecting tale that Paul Haggis (Crash) had brought to the director’s intention; as written on spec by John Zinman and Patrick Massett (Friday Night Lights, Tomb Raider), the fact-based movie, set in the ’90s, follows the Bre-X Minerals scandal, in which “a rough-around-the-edges prospector who stumbles onto one of the largest gold mines in the world.”


This was not meant to be. Instead, TheWrap have learned — more than two years after the project was last noted on this site — that it’s falling into the lap of Spike Lee. As he continues post-production work on Oldboy, Black Bear Pictures‘ website lists his name under the director slot — a little unofficial, but almost as close as we could get to a confirmation.