According to Ananova Mel Gibson is off on another religious epic, this time in a slightly more down to earth character.
Mel Gibson is reportedly set to turn Pope John Paul II’s story into a Hollywood movie.
The New York Post reports Gibson has already filmed the ending to the movie.
He also reportedly despatched a production crew to Rome to film the pope’s funeral.
Well Pope John Paul II was certainly one of the most popular Pope’s of recent history and there are some interesting moments in his Papal life. Not least being repeatedly shot and surviving, but also some of his more controversial proclamations and audiences, will Bono and his sunglasses play himself?
I wonder what the appetite is for a movie of the Pope and his life? Is it a movie for religiously tied moviegoers, or is it a film that might attract a more widespread audience? Personally I really wouldn’t find it interesting, but I’m sure there are many who would.
It also strikes me as slightly odd that there was a need to send out a camera crew to get footage of one of the most covered events of the last century. There’ll be footage everywhere. It either makes me think he managed to secure footage no one else could, or that the story is a bit of a wind up.
