The Gibsonaissance continues! After well-received comebacks both behind and in front of the camera, Mel Gibson is now attracting new projects left, right, and even in certain cases, centre. The actor is currently in talks to star in Every Other Weekend, a new action-adventure film, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
French filmmaker Benjamin Rocher, best known for work in his native France (Antigang and Goal Of The Dead), is directing the film, from a script by Brandon Birtell and Curtis Birtell, which will see Gibson play an elderly CIA spy, who finds himself on a “life-threatening adventure” during a trip to Paris with his family.
Filming is due to begin later in the year in France. There's no word on any other casting just yet.
Gibson is currently riding a wave of positive press, following years in relative wilderness. His first directorial effort in ten years, the war film Hacksaw Ridge, is generating buzz all over the place, and there have been good notices for his turn in action thriller Blood Father. He is currently filming period drama The Professor And The Madman. Could 2017 be the year the Academy welcome him back into their golden bosom?