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Mel Gibson to Make Jewish Hero Movie

Truth rating: 9

11:12 pm, September 8th, 2011

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Mel Gibson is set to produce a movie about Jewish hero, Judah Maccabee.

The actor and director, who went on a drunken anti-Semitic rant during a 2006 arrest in Malibu, is teaming up with Basic Instinct screenwriter Joe Eszterhas to tell the story of the Maccabee family, whose revolt against the tyrannical King Antiochus and reconsecration of the Jewish Temple is told on the holiday of Hanukkah.

A rep for Gibson confirms to Gossip Cop that he’s set to produce the heroic tale and possibly direct it as well.

The project, which is being set up at Warner Bros., has been on Gibson’s mind for more than a decade.

In fact, when promoting The Passion of the Christ in 2004, Gibson told Sean Hannity in an ABC Radio interview, “The story that has always fired my imagination… [the] Maccabees.” He added, “The Maccabees family stood up, and they made war, they stuck by their guns, and they came out winning. It’s like a Western.”

At that time, Gibson was accused of anti-Semitism for The Passion of the Christ, and the Anti-Defamation League’s Abe Foxman said if  Gibson were to make a movie about the Maccabees, “We’ll lose. He’ll write his own history.”

What do you think about Gibson telling the story of the Jewish hero Judah Maccabee?

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  • Anonymous

    good for him!

  • me

    Is John Galliano going to be the star?

  • pixie1824

    This is ridiculous. Who does he think he’s fooling?

  • Anonymous

    as long as he doesnt play the part of the jewish hero…

  • Madmercier

    I THINK IT’S A GREAT IDEA. HE’S A WONDERFUL DIRECTOR AND A WONDERFUL PERSON. I KNOW HE DRINKS TO MUCH AT TIMES. HE’S NOT PERFECT, BUT ARE ANY OF US AND ISN’T THIS A LITTLE BIT OF AN APOLOGY AT THE SAME TIME. DON’T TAKE IT AS AN OFFENSE, HE’LL DO THE FAMILY AND FILM JUSTICE. OF THAT I’M SURE.

  • http://societyfordaintydamsels.wordpress.com Fennel

    I just hope he’s sincere in portraying the story of the Maccabees as written in the 1 and 2nd Book of Maccabees. Off topic. I think its ironic a story of Jewish heroes is not in the Jewish Bible but only found in the Catholic versions in the Deuterocanonical books. Who knows maybe he wants to atone for his Judeophobic remarks, Plus his racist remarks and threatens of violence to his former girlfriend. It sounds sounds quite ironic this project to say the very, very least. BTW he produced a filmed tribute to Leonard Cohen. Yes this I swear is true.
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  • Anonymous

    NOOOOOOOOOO!! Please don’t let Mel try to make up for all of his antiSemitism by making a movie about a Jewish hero. It would just be wrong! I just don’t believe some people…..and hope no one sees this movie if it really does get made.

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