'What is wrong with Hollywood?': Twitter reacts to the news Mel Gibson is directing 'The Wild Bunch'
On the day the Bill Cosby sentencing hearing began and #BelieveSurvivors protests against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh were held across the country, Warner Bros. announced that Mel Gibson will co-write and direct a remake of The Wild Bunch. The news did not go over well with people on Twitter.
Gibson has long been at the center of controversy, making disparaging comments about gays, blacks, and Jews (for which he was blacklisted in Hollywood for almost a decade). Not to mention that he was convicted of battering his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, with whom he had a child, once telling her he hoped she got “raped by a pack of n****ers.” But thanks to his friends in high places — like Robert Downey Jr. and Jodie Foster, who advocated for forgiveness for Gibson — he was given another chance and has been working throughout this decade.
However, in this era of reckoning, people weren’t receptive to his new job announcement. Many — like comedian and actress Sarah Silverman — don’t think his anti-Semitic comments should ever be forgotten.
This writer, however, did point out that Gibson has been working steadily in recent years.
And he has been getting work — Gibson has made approximately one film a year since 2010. He has two in the works for next year (The Professor and the Madman and Boss Level) and then three more, including this new one, with no dates attached. According to Variety, he’s also trying to get his World War II film Destroyer, with Mark Wahlberg attached to star, into production.
As for The Wild Bunch, which will be co-written by Bryan Bagby, it’s unclear if it will be a straight remake of the Sam Peckinpah Western — or if they want to reinvent it.
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