Michael Mann injured after accidentally shooting himself at Los Angeles gun range
Michael Mann was injured after accidentally shooting himself in the leg at a gun range.
Michael Mann was injured after accidentally shooting himself.
The 83-year-old director was at a Los Angeles gun range on Saturday (31.10.26) afternoon when he shot himself in the leg at around 4pm, suffering a "superficial" injury.
A spokesperson for the Miami Vice filmmaker said: “On Saturday, at a gun range, a weapon accidentally discharged while holstered, resulting in a superficial injury to film director Michael Mann. He was treated and is being released."
Police were called to the scene after the gun went off.
An LAPD spokesperson said: “Yesterday at around 4 p.m., officers responded to the 11000 block of Missouri Avenue for a radio call for shots fired at that location. Responding units’ investigation determined the shooting to be accidental. The subject was transported to a local hospital in stable condition. An injury report was completed.”
The LAPD also told TMZ that the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) was called to the scene, with a source telling the outlet the incident took place at The Range LA.
Last year, the Manhunter filmmaker compared the political climate in the United States to the upheavals of the 1960s.
Speaking at the Lumière Festival in Lyon, where he was honoured with a career tribute, Michael reflected on his formative experiences documenting the 1968 student uprisings in Paris for NBC, and said today’s cultural resistance is found in satire rather than the streets.
He told Thierry Frémaux, the Cannes chief and Lumière Festival director, during a masterclass lasting nearly two hours: “That experience was so formative to me personally, because 1968 was this pivotal year.
“It culminated in the Democratic Convention in Chicago and a police riot, in 500 students being killed in Mexico City, in the death of Martin Luther King, of Bobby Kennedy. It was the pivotal year in wakening consciousness of people.”
Michael went on to draw a connection between the unrest of that era and the present-day political divide in America.
He said: “What’s going now is like the ’60s in America in a sense. Except that the vanguard and the resistance today is in South Park,” he joked, prompting laughter from the audience.
According to Variety, Michael also said his films often contain echoes of that turbulent period, including 2001’s Ali, which references the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.
