Saturday, July 11, 2009

Mel Gibson to Return to the Big Screen

Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson arrives for the Los Angeles industry screening of "X-Men Origins-Wolverine" at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, CA.
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Mel Gibson is headed back to the big screen.

The 53-year-old actor -- who is expecting a baby with girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva -- has signed on to headline The Beaver, a drama to be directed by Jodie Foster.

Gibson will play "a depressed man who finds solace in wearing a beaver hand-puppet," according to Variety. Foster will play his wife...

3 comments:

Jackie Parkes MJ said...

That's one huge mid-life crisis!

paramedicgirl said...

I guess Mel has to bankroll the $22 Mil divorce settlement somehow.

swissmiss said...

What a mess. Seems he has struggled with demons of one kind of another all his life.