
Earlier today I attended a press conference with Mel Gibson as he’s out promoting his new film Edge of Darkness (which I really liked). During the Q&A, he talked about his involvement in Mad Max 4 and he gave us some new details on his Viking movie.
Regarding Mad Max 4, Gibson said, “At one point I was involved and it fell to bits and then this and that…so now it’s probably gone through a lot of changes and I can’t wait to see it.” Does that mean he’s definitely not in it? Hard to say. I wouldn’t be surprised if he still does a cameo of some kind.
But the big news came when he was talking about his Viking movie. While we reported about a month ago that he was developing a Viking film with screenwriter William Monahan (The Departed) and it was going to star Leonardo DiCaprio, what we didn’t know is that he’s going for absolute realism! When we asked what language would be used in the film, Gibson told us:
“I think it’s going to be English – the English that would have been spoken back then – and Old Norse. Whatever the 9th century had to offer. I’m going to give you real.”
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