Articles tagged with: Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson might have questionable tastes when it comes to religion, politics and hairdressing, but you can't deny the man one thing. And that's that he definitely knows when he's too old for something. Like Lethal Weapon 5, for example. There had been talk that a Lethal Weapon 5 script was written and ready to go, and that everything hinged on Mel Gibson's approval but, according to director Richard Donner, Mel Gibson wants nothing to do with it. So that's that - there absolutely isn't going to be a Lethal Weapon 5. We can therefore rule Mel Gibson out of making any belated sequels to his movies from now on. Unless he got our script for What Women Want 2, that is. We think it'd be right up Mel Gibson's alley because, in this one, the thing that women want is the extermination of the Jews.
Look, alright, we get it, there are no original ideas left in Hollywood - but that doesn't mean you're allowed to start doing sequels to Lethal Weapon 4, OK? Except Hollywood is. So much so that Joel Silver is currently trying to persuade Mel Gibson to make Lethal Weapon 5. Apparently Shane Black has had an idea for Lethal Weapon 5 that's so amazing it'll make Lethal Weapon 2 look like Lethal Weapon 4, and the whole thing rests on whether or not Mel Gibson wants to sign on the dotted line again. Whatever you think of the idea, we're actually praying that Lethal Weapon 5 does get made. After all, it's been so long since we've been able to sit in the dark screaming "YOU WERE TOO OLD FOR THIS OVER TWO DECADES AGO, YOU HOPELESS GREYING TOSSWEASEL! HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT JUST STOPPING? WELL, HAVE YOU?" at a projected image on a screen.
Never let it be said that we of hecklerspray are ever anything but right all the time. ALL THE TIME*. Just as we say, non-stop, that Hollywood has run out of ideas - reporting on the Goonies sequel, The Smurfs movie (Lindsay Lohan's role as 'Big Lesbian Smurf' still unconfirmed) and the fear we all felt when the Friends movie was rumoured - they come and do it again. This time it's the turn of Lethal Weapon 5, where they really, really will be too old for this shizzle. Or they might be too drunk, who knows?
Unfortunately, it's not a DVD outtake for Driving Miss Daisy - that would be much easier to make light of. No - Morgan Freeman is the latest to be involved in the so-called 'curse' of The Dark Knight, after he was involved in a car accident on Sunday night, which officials referred to as 'serious'. The 71-year-old actor will require surgery on a shattered elbow, as well as time for other less serious injuries to his neck and shoulder to heal. While initial reports said Freeman was in a serious state, these have since rescinded and he is expected to make a comfortable, if slow, recovery from his injuries.
Travel advice now for Jewish, crotch-repulsed drivers headed to Costa Rica this weekend - don't go! Don't go! We're not messing around! If you go to Costa Rica this weekend, you're in for a really terrible time. We're not joking. Because joining you in Costa Rica will be notorious hell-raisers Britney Spears and Mel Gibson. And people - Britney Spears and Mel Gibson have gone to Costa Rica... together! But one crumb of comfort should be taken in the fact that Britney Spears and Mel Gibson haven't gone to Costa Rica for a romantic getaway. Because, seriously, if Britney's berserk, bipolar, approval-starved genes got mixed up with Mel's angry, alcoholic, racially-suspicious, hardline religious genes to create a new life, well, we'll have found that life-long malevolent global oppressor we've been dreading.
There’s nothing that randomly brings two totally opposite people together like a bit of Tolstoy.
You know, a friendly dialogue over the falsities of society entangled throughout Anna Karenina, a little chat over motifs of enigmatic love and philosophies of death in War and Peace - it happens every day. No, really. Just ask Mel Gibson and Britney Spears. These two were all chummy-like over dinner at a Russian restaurant over the weekend that has a unique selection of Russian books on the premises.
You see, Mel Gibson is trying to help Britney Spears, so of course they got together for an evening of laughs and Russian literature. And everyone knows that it takes one sometimes embarrassingly drunken nutter to save another sometimes embarrassingly drunken nutter.
OK, first an apology for the misleading title - Mel Gibson has been allowed to drink for ages, but now he gets to do it without a judge disapprovingly scowling at him for it.
Mel Gibson has just been told by a judge that he no longer needs to attend courtroom progress reports for the probation he was given when he got drunk and drove around screaming bad things about the Jews that time.
However, just because he doesn't have to appear in court, Mel Gibson still has 18 months of probation left to battle through alone. Which means, although he's allowed to get drunk, we'll have to wait until the middle of 2009 before Mel Gibson can load up on booze, break the law and use the arrest as an excuse to howl Jewish insults into the sky like some sort of sugartit-fixated werewolf again without fear of jail.
You know how in the end of The Passion Of The Christ, Jesus resurrected and ascended into heaven? Well that was Benedict Fitzgerald's brilliant plot-twist idea - and now Mel Gibson won't even pay him for it.
A seasoned vet like Gibson should know you can't burn bridges like that - what'll happen in Lethal Weapon 5 when Martin Riggs is in a bad spot, and Gibson needs a writer to think of a way out - like turning water into wine to distract his enemies. Or maybe multiplying fish to help a young blind boy learn math, and then he finds out the blind boy is his enemy's only son. Or maybe Riggs could learn that before birth he'd been genetically altered to fly by Germans.
We work cheap, Mr. Gibson.
Anyhow, writer Fitzgerald feels like he needs a bigger cut of the Jesus proceeds, and he's suing Gibson to get it. After all, he sat side by side with Mel for months on end imagining the story up and then telling it to people for the first time ever.
