Mel Gibson Plans TV Miniseries on Holocaust

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT: Mel Gibson Plans TV Miniseries on Holocaust
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
Published: December 6, 2005

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6 - Mel Gibson, whose "The Passion of the Christ" was assailed by critics as an anti-Semitic passion play - and whose father has been on record as a Holocaust denier - has a new project under way: a nonfiction miniseries about the Holocaust.

Mr. Gibson's television production company is developing a four-hour miniseries for ABC based on the self-published memoir of Flory A. Van Beek, a Dutch Jew whose gentile neighbors hid her from the Nazis but who lost several relatives in concentration camps.

It is not expected that Mr. Gibson will act in the miniseries, nor is it certain yet that his name, rather than his company's, will be publicly attached to the final product, according to several people involved in developing it. Nor is it guaranteed yet that the project will be completed and broadcast.

But Quinn Taylor, ABC's senior vice president in charge of movies for television, acknowledged that the attention-getting value of having Mr. Gibson attached to a Holocaust project was a factor.

"Controversy's publicity, and vice versa," Mr. Taylor said....

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/06/arts/television/06cnd-gibson.html?hp&ex=1133931600&en=5c7469338f8f51e3&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[BrklynLiberal]

1. .

:puke:

[Gabi Hayes]

4. maybe his dad will direct....

will they say the Jews brought it on themselves?

[Deja Q]

2. Oh good. Gibbon spins and omits from Christ's life...

Just how will he distort WW II history?

[FreedomAngel82]

3. Will he have Jews involved who lived through it?

If not than I recommend "Night" by Elie Wiesel. I found it at a local book store for two bucks (it was like a gift from the powers that be) and before at my local library when I was doing a report on Mr. Wiesel.

[HockeyMom]

6. I took a college course on the Holocaust

taught by a Rabbi, who lived through it, and "Night" was REQUIRED reading.

[matt819]

5. For or against? (nt)

[maveric]

7. Isn't Mel's father a Holocaust denier?

IIRC he made some statements claiming that the holocaust was overblown and not what it was reported to be.

[aquart]

9. I can't wait to see those country club concentration camps.

This is another excuse to do torture scenes, isn't it?

Next, he can do the Trial of Saddam, with flashbacks.

[ticapnews]

8. Auschwitz was a day spa

Theresienstadt was a retirement community.

History according to the Gibsons...

[aquart]

10. Yeah, but the saunas were killers.

And let's not even talk about the mud wraps.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

11. All jokes aside...(and I thought of a few but they were taken)

this actually could help his reputation if he does a good job of it. But I'm afraid it will be heavy on the torture and light on the rest.

One thing, I do think it would be effective done in German with subtitles.

But it took me five years to bring myself to see Schindler's List, so I might never see it.

I have to teach the Holocaust to young children. It's a challenge.

[mcctatas]

12. Just think, he can do a veritable orgy of homerotic snuff scenes...

this would be like Dick Cheney writing a book about random acts of kindness....not credible:puke: