Apocalypto is the next project on the plate of Mel Gibson at the moment. Is it just me or does this picture make it look like Gibson is starting to loose his mind?
According to Gibson, Apocalypto is an action-adventure film of mythic proportions. It’s inspired by Gibson’s fascination of “ancient cultures and great civilizations. The good folks over at Canoe give us some more details about Apocalypto:
The film’s stars will be unrecognizable to most moviegoers, and they will speak in the Mayan tongue of Yucateco, Gibson said. It will be light on dialogue and heavy on images and action. It’s set 600 years ago, prior to the 16th-century Spanish conquest of Mexico and Central America.
The movie is “a story about a man and his woman, his child and his father, his community,” adding that the man “is put in an incredibly heightened, stressful situation . . . has to overcome tremendous obstacles. So it’s a universal story in that respect.”
Sounds good to me! Like his smash hit “Passion of the Christ”, Gibson is totally footing the bill for this movie on his own… which means he is totally free to make it as he sees fit, and will in all probability make him very very rich…. again.
Gibson is proving to be one of these visionary artists that is willing to tell stories that no one else will… and tell them in such a way that you can tell he approaches his films as art. Will Apocalypto be any good? Who knows… but I’m already damn interested in seeing it.
