This is going to be fucking INSANE.
So after spending the last few years making merry in a sugartits-sized chasm of alcoholism and divorce, the Lethal Weapon legend and director of Catholic torture porn (that'll be the Passion of the Christ, then) finally returns to the screen in 2010's Martin Campbell-directed thriller Edge of Darkness. After that, he's heading up the forthcoming Jodie Foster comedy The Beaver (don't laugh - early word is terrific) and then, well, then he's going back behind the camera and it sounds all kind of mental...
According to producer Graham King, Gibson's untitled Viking epic will be "an awe-inspiring story, created with some of the industry s finest cinematic talent" (via Variety.) To be honest, they had us at "Mel Gibson + vikings." Sounds too perfect, right? Rape, pillage, accents, unyieldingly brutal expressions of personal faith...this really has got the star of Bird on the Wire and What Women Want written all over it!
The man behind the screenplay is William Monahan, who rocked our world with The Departed and wobbled it slightly with Kingdom of Heaven. Still, good fit for the material. And the project will be top-lined by Leonardo Dicaprio because, you know, everything has to be toplined by Leonardo Dicaprio (oh, btw, apparently Shutter Island is fantastic.) There's no question of course that big mad Mel can handle historical extravaganzas with his eyes gouged out - Braveheart bagged him Oscars galore back in 1995. And his last film as director, the amazing Mayan chase movie Apocalypto proved he could handle visceral, thrilling action in an unconventional setting.
Shooting begins in the Autumn, and as they say in the fjords: Norse to see you, to see you, Norse!
Can't wait.
But seeing as we are, here's a picture of Mel Gibson looking batshit mental:
Oh, and another one:
I am too busy hating Jews to comment on Mel Gibson.
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