Mel Gibson
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 3 Mar
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And we don't want anyone doing that. You know, because it sort of walked around the entire system. And scored.
Well, I had no alternative. Right. Because no major would back it.
I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Rupert Murdoch said, you know, he wanted to. And then he said, nah. And then somebody advised him and said he'd be out of business in five years.
Wow. In five years if he distributed that. Yeah. And I was like, wow, if he's scared, I'm like, I've got to crash and burn here. But it actually did all right. It did phenomenal. Yeah. And then, again, I tried to. I went with the studio on Apocalypto, but, man, that didn't work out so well. It didn't? No. In what way? Well, it was interesting. The film. was a film with, it had no stars.
It was in another language, and it came out on a weekend with another film that had Leo in it and another film that had Cameron Diaz in it. And so those three films came out on the same weekend, and the one with no stars and without the language won the weekend monetarily. It won the box office by a narrow margin on the other two. And the second week out, Disney pulled the screens. Really? Yeah.
So I thought, oh, that's funny. Well, screens are gone. I guess there's another agenda. Because that was another self-funded thing.
I think so. But, you know, it's just politics and, you know. And I think perhaps the distribution deal on that wasn't as good as something else. So, you know, it's all business. It's a phenomenal movie, though. It's a great film, yeah. And it did better afterwards.
Sure. Yeah, it did well.
It's just primal.
And I think I love primitive stuff, you know, and primal emotions. I mean, basically, it's a guy just trying to get back home to save his wife and kid and And he's got a lot of obstacles in the way, like jaguars and bad guys chasing him and trying to skin him and trying to rip his heart out. It's pretty cool.
And I sat in a room with my assistant. He said, what do you want to do next, a chase movie? He said, well, so we found out where the Mayan canoes in Columbus and all that, and then we just started making the story up in the room, and we wrote it. Wow. Yeah. Some assistant, man, he actually wrote, he actually tapped it out.
Crazy.
Yes.
I know it's 20 years later. It's 20 years later, but it's... Yeah, but it's the right guy. Yeah, but it's...
it's supposed to be three days later but he got 20 years older and i think um i have to use a few techniques that they've started to get really good with the cgi and yeah oh they can do amazing things now you can actually yeah get some of the same people by the time you film it'll be even better yeah when are you going to start filming i'm hoping uh Next year sometime.
There's a lot required because it is, I'll just tell you this, it's an acid trip when we wrote it. It is like... I've never read anything like it. And my brother and I and Randall all sort of congregated on this. So there's some good heads put together, but there's some crazy stuff. And I think in order to really tell the story properly, you have to start with the fall of the angels, right?
Which is you're in another place. You're in another realm, right? You know, you need to go to hell. You need to go to Sheol.
Yeah.
Sure, you got to have, yeah. Right. You got to have his origin.
This is a good question. And I think I have ideas about how to do that. And ideas about how to... Evoke things and emotions in people from the way you depict it and the way you shoot it. So I've been thinking about it for a long time. So it's not going to be easy and it's going to require a lot of planning. And I'm not wholly sure I can pull it off, to tell you the truth.
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