Mel Gibson Movie Apocalypto Four Months Late

Now we don't know about you, but we're enormous fans of cripplingly self-indulgent movies starring no famous people made in languages nobody has spoken for hundreds of years. So we were looking forward to Apocalypto.

Apocalypto is the new movie directed by Mel Gibson. And Apocalypto was supposed to be released in August, but cautious Disney bigwigs have decided that a confusing blood-filled subtitled film about an ancient civilisation is really much more of a Christmassy deal, and have pushed back the release of Apocalypto to December 8.

We've all been there: standing in front of a cinema ticket counter for ages trying to weigh up whether you want to go and see a vast, epic, serious movie dealing in the intricacies of an long-deceased civilisation filmed entirely in the dead language of Yucateco or a film about Will Ferrell driving a car in a funny way.

That's what Disney has figured will happen, anyway. Because, up until recently, the new Mel Gibson epic Apocalypto and the new Will Ferrell movie The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby were to open on the same date. But now they're not - Apocalypto has been booted back until December. Of course, you could say that a December opening date will help Apocalypto secure important Oscar nominations, but we're pretty much convinced that it's the Will Ferrell thing.

Still, at least we can have another four months of watching Mel Gibson strangling himself with his own tongue trying to explain Apocalypto to confused people like Jenni Falconer from GMTV, even though he's got some way to go to top this piece of incomprehensible nonsense from November:

"[It’s] a story about a man and his woman, his child and his father, his community. [The man] is put in an incredibly heightened,
stressful situation… A lot of it, storywise, I just made up."

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[story by Stuart Heritage]