Not counting his cameo in the gloriously glorious Paparazzi, it’s been five years since Mel Gibson appeared onscreen. Five years. (Had I counted Paparazzi, it would’ve been four. Somehow, that wasn’t impressive enough.) And if you were wondering what it would take to get the fine actor back in front of the camera, here’s your answer: Martin Campbell and William Monahan.
Gibson will star in the big screen adaptation of Edge of Darkness, a 1985 BBC series about a by-the-book police officer who gets tangled in a web of corruption whilst investigating the death of his activist daughter. Campbell helmed the original, which ran a healthy 317 minutes. I imagine that Monahan will pare the narrative down just a little (while leaving a page or two open for a hideously incongruous torture sequence).
Producer Graham King is self-financing Edge of Darkness, which is currently scheduled to begin shooting in Boston this August. It’ll be fascinating to see how the media treats Gibson’s return to the spotlight; though he’s been brutally honest in the past (save for his anti-Semitism; he had to get hammered for those delightful thoughts to come spilling out), I imagine that we’ll see a much humbler Mel when it comes time to do press for this movie. Not that any of that really matters. I just want to see the guy act again. And stop hating Jews. That’d be good, too.
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as long as it's not what women want in boston, i'm good with it…come to think of it, the highlight could be him trying on a bostonian accent…movies like this call for a Donnie Wahlberg cameo
Yo Jeremy, Mel was in Dublin a few months ago to get a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Film and Televsion Academy or an IFTA if you like. He said quite openly that it had been a rough year or so and he was looking forward to get back acting and keeping his mouth shut. He seemed quite apologetic in the press and at the ceremony, people asked him straight up and he gave honest answers about the whole situation. Mel Gibson is brillo, so good in fact, I named my dog Riggs. He's registered as a lethal weapon you know.
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