Brody, Portman lined up for Capa biography

Oscar winner Adrien Brody and Star Wars actress Natalie Portman have been offered the starring roles in a film biography of war photographer Robert Capa, according to reports in Hollywood.

Capa, which is due to begin filming in April, will focus on the relationship between Budapest-born Capa and the woman he loved, fellow photographer Gerda Taro, during the Spanish Civil War.

The film has a special resonance for Brody, whose mother was Hungarian-born photojournalist Sylvia Placy.

Capa reinvented himself as an American playboy photographer when he met Taro in 1930s Paris.

Together they went to Spain to cover the war and Capa’s picture of a soldier at the moment of being shot became the defining image of the conflict.

Taro was killed during the siege of Madrid and Capa was killed in 1954 when he stepped on a landmine in Indochina.