Mel Gibson's Viking Epic (DiCaprio Jumps Ship)

[WyldeMan45]

Now I first read about this a month ago, and was intrigued to say the least. Than I just found a little more news from a couple days ago in which Mel discussed the language. Yeah so um the words F***** and EPIC come to mind here folks.

Mel Gibson will direct and Leonardo DiCaprio will star in a Viking culture-themed untitled period drama for GK Films and Icon Films reports Variety.

"Kingdom of Heaven" and "The Departed" scribe William Monahan pens the script though plot details are being kept under wraps. The project will mark Gibson's next directorial effort, but DiCaprio is expected to squeeze in a film before this one.

Gibson, Tim Headington and Graham King will produce. Filming kicks off next Fall.

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What are you doing next?

Gibson: I’m working with Graham on the Viking movie. The very first idea I ever had about making a film…my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I was sixteen years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie. And I wanted to make it in old Norse, which I was studying at the time. It’s odd because at that age that’s a stupidly ridiculous idea cause how will I ever be a filmmaker. It’s just some kind of romantic pipe dream. But that was the first big, epic, wacky idea I ever had was to show Viking real.
Does that mean the Viking movie will be in English or in old Norse?

Gibson: I think it’s going to be English - the English that would have been spoken back then - and Old Norse. Whatever the 9th century had to offer. I’m going to give you real.

Is that really important to you.

Gibson: 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?

How hard is that going to be to cast apart from Leo?

Gibson: He’ll be amazing. He’s a great actor.

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