Mel Gibson’s Viking Movie Is Not Dead
We just got a look atGet the Gringo, anaction filmthatMel Gibsonco-wrote, financed and starred in. But fans undeterred by the actors offscreen actions might still be hoping for an update on another movie that was announced right around the same time Gibsonstarted workonGet the Gringo. That other project was aViking epic, and a film for which Gibsonsaid he wanted to work partially in a bygone version of the Norse language.
Turns out that Viking movie isn’t dead. While the update we have is minor, for those hoping to see the film one day, it is probably a lot better than nothing.
Deadlinesaid today,
We’ve heard Judah Maccabee movielately than the Viking one, especially thanks to the image of Gibson as an anti-semite. But it is the Viking film that I’m a lot more curious to see. I don’t know if this new second draft is the second draft by Wallace, or if he rewrote the draft that William Monahan worked on some time ago.
Regardless,Pathfinderdidn’t come close to satisfying as a film about the ancient warriors, and while there have been good Viking films (I’m one of the people who really digs Refn’sValhalla Rising) none are quite along the lines of what Gibson has promised:
I want a Viking to scare you. I don’t want a Viking to say, “I’m going to die with a sword in my hand.” I don’t want to hear that. It pulls the rug out from under you. I want to see somebody who I have never seen before speaking low guttural German who scares the living shit out of me coming up to my house. What is that like? What would that have been like?
Leonardo DiCaprio was onceattached to appearin the Viking film, but that seems unlikely at this point. We’ll update again if more info arrives.
