I hope it will be historically accurate and real; but not the way Nicolas Winding Refn’s Valhalla Rising was. In relation to his Maccabee movie, Gibson said: "I'm working with Joe Eszterhas on that. And be our Facebook chum here, Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here, Lethal Weapon 5 is in Trouble, According to Richard Donner, The Ridiculously Fast Turnaround Time of Lethal Weapon 4, The James Clayton Column: Mel Gibson’s The Beaver, drowning beneath the movie mainstream, Halloween: Timeline Explained for Horror Movie Franchise, The Most Terrifying Magic: The Gathering Cards, Best Horror Movies on Netflix: Scariest Films to Stream, Topps' Fright Flicks Cards: Where Horror and Comedy Collide, Mel Gibson on Lethal Weapon 5 and Berserker. I think I can see him as a Viking. Described as an epic Viking tale. Berserker cannot disappoint us. Den of Geek Next post: More Staffordshire Hoard Items Discovered, Previous post: My Favorite Norse Proverbs and Sayings, More Staffordshire Hoard Items Discovered, How to Find out If You Have Viking Ancestry, In Rebus. "Berserker" will be directed by Gibson and written by Randall Wallace who also wrote the script for the academy award winning "Braveheart'. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. In 2008, a year before the initial announcement of the Viking project, Mr. Gibson visited Iceland with his two sons. 90 Day Fiancé: Larissa Lima Being Blackmailed by Son's Father, Mel Gibson Talks 'Berserker', 'Maccabee' & 'Mad Max: Fury Road', Tiny Toons Reboot Coming To HBO Max, First Look Released, Atlanta’s Brian Tyree Henry Cast Alongside Brad Pitt in Bullet Train, Bly Manor: The Real Reason [SPOILER] Didn't Forget Themselves, Borat 2 Fans Raise $80,000 (And Climbing) For Pranked Babysitter, Why Link Was Locked Away In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Venom and Thor Writer Launches Monstrous New Digital Book, The Masked Singer Season 4 Episode 5: Group C Clues & Fan Predictions, David Thewlis Is In 3 Avatar Sequels (But Not Avatar 2). I just could not see that. By the 11th century there weren’t any of these guys left anymore.”, It sounds like he’s done it, too. Warner Bros sporadically seems to attempt to revive the franchise, but as far as Gibson is concerned, he’s done with playing Riggs. And he’s got his long-in-gestation viking movie currently lined up for his next directing gig. Don’t expect one of them to be Lethal Weapon 5, though. He might be racist, anti-Semitic, misogynistic, homophobic, and the director of some not-very-good films, but you can’t keep Mel Gibson down. No, I don't think they had horns. Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England. We’ll keep you posted on Berserker as we hear more about it…, Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here. Can Regina King (‘One Night in Miami’) become the latest actor to receive an Oscar nomination for directing? Plot unknown. I’ve done it. They spoiled it all. Too bad it would be Gibson. A British nurse visiting Scotland in 1945 stumbles upon a time portal that transports her to the 18th Century. The filmmaker visited Borgarfjörður and other areas of historical significance. In The History’s Vikings TV series accuracy seems to be sacrificed a lot. When asked if Leonardo DiCaprio and writer William Monahan were still involved in the film , the Lethal Weapon actor replied: "Things begin and people wander off and do their thing and I do my thing. It will probably include Old English as well, spoken by the Anglo-Saxons. Vikings, as you know, are very unsympathetic characters and these guys will be bad. Used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 2.0 Generic Licence. 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Even studios balk at some of that stuff. I just took my stuff and wrote it with Randall. With regards to the Viking film Berserker, Gibson said: “I just got a second draft of something I'm really excited about today. Looking for a movie the entire family can enjoy? Betty Ross Works With Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner In MCU Concept Art, How to Find (& Catch) Keldeo in Pokémon: Crown Tundra DLC, Genshin Impact’s Huge Mobile Launch Made It $245 Million In One Month, X-Men's Apocalypse Is About To Fight His Wife... To The Death, Moon Knight: Oscar Isaac's Marvel Character Explained, AMD’s ‘Big Navi’ Radeon RX 6000 Series GPUs: What You Need To Know, DC Confirms The Real Reason Nobody Knows Bruce Wayne is Batman, Avatar 2: Kate Winslet’s Underwater Scene Is Part Of A Na’vi Ceremony, Tesla's Regenerative Braking Choice Reportedly Missing On New EVs. Though it’s really tough to replace Danny (Glover). View production, box office, & company info, Michael Fassbender: Films He Could Have Been In. I was like 'Sure, it's fine. Mel Gibson says he's co-written a new draft of his Viking movie, Berserker; he also provided an update on his vision for his Judah Maccabee movie. Mel Gibson Talks 'Berserker', 'Maccabee' & 'Mad Max: Fury Road' Mel Gibson gives details on his Viking movie, which has now been titled 'Berserker', his movie about Jewish warrior Judah Maccabee and being replaced by Tom Hardy in 'Mad Max: Fury Road'. He spoke to fish farmers and had lunch in Clifden at the Abbeyglen Hotel. Strange times we live in. With James Preston Rogers, Birol Tarkan Yildiz, Ved Redic. Can Regina King (‘One Night in Miami’) become the latest actor to receive an Oscar nomination for directing? “I’ve got a great script. The Inception star Leonardo DiCaprio refused to work with the Viking project. I actually enjoyed Valhalla Rising. Unfortunately as stated above, it will be a Gibson movie, and I’m betting there will be plenty of instances where historical accuracy is sacrificed for his own extreme religious views and aesthetic/entertainment value. The Departed screenwriter William Monahan who was supposed to write for it, as it seems, refused to do so as well. And I couldn’t find a way to make it work, because if you look at what Vikings did, they’re pretty unsympathetic. A scheming circus owner finds her authority challenged when the show is targeted by a vicious killer. Until this day, The 13th Warrior has been the only Viking movie that could be counted as comparatively historical (even though full of blatant mistakes) and entertaining. If this actually gets off the ground I bet it will be entertaining as hell! One day he finds out his roommate's boyfriend witnessed a murder, and he sets out to investigate what happened to use the story for his novel. Maccabee 1 and 2. The go-to source for comic book and superhero movie fans. A sequel to The Passion of the Christ (2004) focuses on the events that occurred 3 days between the crucifixion and resurrection when Jesus Christ ascended to Abraham's Bosom to preach and resurrect Old Testament saints. That's from the last two books of the Old Testament, which is like; just read it some time. This will be the case with the Viking movie, Berserker, too. “Nah. Since then many sad things happened; Mr. Gibson’s personal life has been widely discussed in the news. Plot kept under wraps. Gibson also spilled some of his thoughts on Mad Max: Fury Road, which has The Dark Knight Rises star Tom Hardy taking over the titular role: "I like that kid, Tom Hardy. Mr. Gibson will not give up simply because this Viking project has been his dream since he was 16. Looks forward to it. Where it goes from here is anyone's guess.". Many talked about his pariah status in the Hollywood. No I think the way things are going with Total Recall, they’ll just remake those somehow. As it was later suggested, the trip might have been the location scouting for the movie. I got better things to do.'". Three years ago I wrote about an untitled Viking project developed by Mel Gibson. Earlier this year Randall Wallace who wrote for the Braveheart was reported to turn in a second draft for this new epic period movie. King Kamehameha fulfills his life-long prophecy of uniting the Hawaiian islands . Edge of Darkness, The Beaver and How I Spent My Summer Vacation (Get the Gringo) haven’t seen him near his peak, but he does have more projects on the go (he’s just finished up on Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills). IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. He went on to say that the portrayal of Vikings in the film would be unlike anything that we’ve seen from Hollywood before (presumably the Kirk Douglas starrer The Vikings): “They did not have horns. Can the twin be substituted for the real king? www.denofgeek.com/movies/mel-gibson-on-lethal-weapon-5-and-berserker There are new challenges. He wanted to make it in Old Norse, which he studied at the time. He was so amazing in those things. Two last directorial projects by Mr. Gibson, The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto, included English subtitles because the characters spoke the historic languages of the time. This year Mr. Gibson visited Dublin and scouted locations in Ireland. Hello Clayton. And there’s no point in doing Viking light. Now something much greater awaits us. Mel Gibson gives details on his Viking movie, which has now been titled 'Berserker', his movie about Jewish warrior Judah Maccabee and being replaced by Tom Hardy in 'Mad Max: Fury Road'. I sort of hooked up again with Randall Wallace, who did the script on Braveheart. So I had to find a way to find devices and ways to make that work dramatically, intelligently and make it seem realistic so it’s about real conflict in a real era in the ninth century, so that you actually see behaviour and a new mode of thought seeping in. But we knew it would.“. Mel Gibson’s Viking Film ‘Berserker’ Still Moving Forward Nick Newman August 14, 2012 He might be racist, anti-Semitic, misogynistic, homophobic, and the director of some not-very-good films, but you can’t keep Mel Gibson down. Mel Gibson’s Viking Film ‘Berserker’ Still Moving Forward - IMDb Menu Just read it, it's like a Western.
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