Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster together again
Posted on July 11, 2009
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Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster come together after 15 years ago (Maverick), are set to join forces again for The Beaver. A quirky comedy drama along the lines of 2007′s indie hit Lars and the Real Girl, the Kyle Killen-penned script follows a down-and-out man (Gibson) who finds comfort wearing a beaver hand puppet. Foster will not only play his wife, but she’ll also helm the film, marking her first directing effort since 1995′s Home for the Holidays. Hoping to erase his high-profile 2006 DUI arrest and subsequent anti-Semitic rant from the minds of moviegoers, not to mention distract himself from his pending divorce, Gibson next appears in the forthcoming thriller Edge of Darkness, his first headlining role since 2000′s What Women Want.
The Beaver is tentatively slated to start lensing in New York in September. Foster boarded the project and brought it to Gibson, with whom she co-starred in 1994′s Maverick. Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin and Keith Redmon will produce the film. The project had several star and director combos circling — including Steve Carell and Jay Roach — over the past several months. Producers are pushing for a September start date in New York.
It’s a surprise move for Gibson, who has only just returned to acting after his infamous inebriated antisemitic rant made the headlines in 2006. Gibson has mainly stayed behind the camera since then, directing the biblical tale The Passion of the Christ and the critically acclaimed Apocalypto. But he’s due back on the big screen next January, in Martin Campbell’s movie adaptation of the classic 1985 BBC miniseries Edge of Darkness, playing a policeman investigating the murder of his daughter. It will be his first lead role since Signs back in 2002. Foster has directed two previous films, the 1995 family drama Home for the Holidays and 1991′s Little Man Tate, about a single mother who tries to do her best for her gifted son. The Beaver would reunite her with Gibson – they starred in Richard Donner’s lighthearted 1994 western Maverick, with Foster playing a youthful con artist opposite Gibson’s wisecracking gambler.
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