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29 NOVEMBER 2007.- A FILM STUDIO IN PANAMA Mel Gibson's visit to Panama has not ended yet. Yesterday Gibson spoke to Carmen Gisela Vergara,Vice Minister of Foreign Trade, by telephone. According to Vergara, the American director and producer was very interested to know the requirements to establish a Film Studio in Panama. The Vice Minister did not specify whether Mel Gibson was alone or accompanied by a production team on this wonderful tour round the Isthmus of Panama. |
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MEL GIBSON wants a Film Studio (for Christmas???) |
29 NOVEMBER 2007.- A REFLECTION 
1 DECEMBER 2007.- PHOTOS, MEL GIBSON IN PANAMA
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1 DECEMBER 2007.- POLL, THE BEST MOVIE DUO
MEL GIBSON and DANNY GLOVER
Source: Dnaindia.com
The animated pair of Wallace and Gromit have been voted the best movie duo.
Wallace and Gromit collected 20 percent of the votes in a survey of more than 5,000 movie fans, reports ananova.com.
Laurel and Hardy came in second with 14 percent of the votes. The "Lethal Weapon" pair of Mel Gibson ad Danny Glover came in third with 10 percent of the votes.
Some of other famous duos to feature in the list include Han Solo and Chewbacca from "Star Wars" in fourth place, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid in seventh position, and Maverick and Goose from "Top Gun" starring Tom Cruise in the ninth place.
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MEL GIBSON and DANNY GLOVER |
The animated pair of Wallace and Gromit have been voted the best movie duo.
Wallace and Gromit collected 20 percent of the votes in a survey of more than 5,000 movie fans, reports ananova.com.
Laurel and Hardy came in second with 14 percent of the votes. The "Lethal Weapon" pair of Mel Gibson ad Danny Glover came in third with 10 percent of the votes.
Some of other famous duos to feature in the list include Han Solo and Chewbacca from "Star Wars" in fourth place, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid in seventh position, and Maverick and Goose from "Top Gun" starring Tom Cruise in the ninth place.
1 DECEMBER 2007.- YES, NO or WHO KNOWS
MEL GIBSON, Yes or No?
Source: PanArmenian.net
According to PanARMENIAN.Net, the rumors about Mel Gibson playing a role on a film about the Armenian Genocide are no true, ?NC-WR Executive Director Andrew Kzirian told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. However, Hollywood may deny any hearsay just not to draw attention to the issue, he noted.
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According to PanARMENIAN.Net, the rumors about Mel Gibson playing a role on a film about the Armenian Genocide are no true, ?NC-WR Executive Director Andrew Kzirian told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. However, Hollywood may deny any hearsay just not to draw attention to the issue, he noted.
3 DECEMBER 2007.- TALKING ABOUT THE BEST MOVIE DUO
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4 DECEMBER 2007.- TWO GREAT FILMS
"No guns, no jujitsu. Just bring him down."
IGN (Canada) has posted a great item about McCleary and one of the funniest and most tense sequences in "Lethal Weapon".
"Riggs and Murtaugh answer a dispatch call regarding a possible suicide jumper. Arriving on the scene, they are informed by a policewoman that the would-be jumper's name is McCleary (Michael Shaner) and that he left an office party and went upstairs to the rooftop ledge. Since the police shrink is unavailable, the violent and volatile Riggs volunteers to talk the jumper down and assures Murtaugh that he's experienced in such situations. Murtaugh warns Riggs: "No guns, no jujitsu. Just bring him down." And so begins one of the funniest and most tense sequences in this action classic.
Once on the rooftop, Riggs approaches McCleary, who screams at him to stay away. Riggs sweet-talks his way out onto the ledge, assuring McCleary that he's afraid of heights and won't try to rescue him, for fear of falling to his own death. Riggs then vainly attempts an impromptu therapy session with the jumper. This talk momentarily appeases McCleary, and helps establish an uneasy trust between the two men."
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And if you´re a lover of "Braveheart" and speaks Spanish, we´re sure you´re going to enjoy the review "Braveheart, épica por naturaleza" written by Ayrim (OcioJoven) very much.
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"Riggs and Murtaugh answer a dispatch call regarding a possible suicide jumper. Arriving on the scene, they are informed by a policewoman that the would-be jumper's name is McCleary (Michael Shaner) and that he left an office party and went upstairs to the rooftop ledge. Since the police shrink is unavailable, the violent and volatile Riggs volunteers to talk the jumper down and assures Murtaugh that he's experienced in such situations. Murtaugh warns Riggs: "No guns, no jujitsu. Just bring him down." And so begins one of the funniest and most tense sequences in this action classic.
Once on the rooftop, Riggs approaches McCleary, who screams at him to stay away. Riggs sweet-talks his way out onto the ledge, assuring McCleary that he's afraid of heights and won't try to rescue him, for fear of falling to his own death. Riggs then vainly attempts an impromptu therapy session with the jumper. This talk momentarily appeases McCleary, and helps establish an uneasy trust between the two men."
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And if you´re a lover of "Braveheart" and speaks Spanish, we´re sure you´re going to enjoy the review "Braveheart, épica por naturaleza" written by Ayrim (OcioJoven) very much.
Click HERE to read item
6 DECEMBER 2007.- MEL RETURNED TO COSTA RICA
Icon Prods. in Costa Rica?
Actor and Director Mel Gibson returned to Costa Rica this week to meet with members of the President's cabinet for over an hour in a hotel West of San Jose to discuss the potential of opening a movie production company in the country.
Attending the meeting was Minister of Tourism Carlos Ricardo Benavides, Minister of Exterior Commerce Marco Vinicio Ruiz and Economy Minister Marco Vargas. Gibson appeared on Channel 13 news today to explain the purpose for this Tuesday meeting with the government officials.
Gibson said he is considering Costa Rica because "it's a beautiful country, very stable."
"I like its people a lot and they have very good coffee."
Gibson already owns a house in Guanacaste on the country's Pacific coast.
In July, he met with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias to discuss making a financial donation to the nation's Indians.
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Attending the meeting was Minister of Tourism Carlos Ricardo Benavides, Minister of Exterior Commerce Marco Vinicio Ruiz and Economy Minister Marco Vargas. Gibson appeared on Channel 13 news today to explain the purpose for this Tuesday meeting with the government officials.
Gibson said he is considering Costa Rica because "it's a beautiful country, very stable."
"I like its people a lot and they have very good coffee."
Gibson already owns a house in Guanacaste on the country's Pacific coast.
In July, he met with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias to discuss making a financial donation to the nation's Indians.
6 DECEMBER 2007.- GIBSON MET WITH TORRIJOS
Gibson met with Martín Torrijos
Yesterday Mel Gibson returned to Panama and met with President Martín Torrijos.
Attending the meeting were some member of the President´s cabinet (Alejandro Ferrer and Rubén Blades) and Vice President Samuel Lewis Navarro.
Gibson, who was escorted by a group of Icon Productions executives, said that he was planning to shoot some films in Panama in a near future.
Mel met with Rubén Blades a few months ago
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Attending the meeting were some member of the President´s cabinet (Alejandro Ferrer and Rubén Blades) and Vice President Samuel Lewis Navarro.
Gibson, who was escorted by a group of Icon Productions executives, said that he was planning to shoot some films in Panama in a near future.
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6 DECEMBER 2007.- POLL, "UNDER AND ALONE"
Fans have spent four years waiting for "Under and Alone"
POLL, "UNDER AND ALONE" at www.worstpreviews.com.
To Believe or not To Believe, this is the question... but if you prefer to believe the rumour about "Under and Alone", VOTE!!!
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Fans have spent four years waiting for "Under and Alone" |
To Believe or not To Believe, this is the question... but if you prefer to believe the rumour about "Under and Alone", VOTE!!!
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7 DECEMBER 2007.- AND THE WINNER IS...
Photo 1 (Costa Rica, January 2007) - Mel Gibson visited the Osa Peninsula with his young son.
Photo 2 (Panama, 5 Dec 2007) - Mel Gibson met with President Torrijos. Panama doesn´t give up hope
Costa Rica and Panama are contending for Mel Gibson´s love (and future projects), which of these wonderful countries will be "the chosen"???
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Photo 1 (Costa Rica, January 2007) - Mel Gibson visited the Osa Peninsula with his young son.
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7 DECEMBER 2007.- INTERVIEW RAOUL TRUJILLO
Raoul Trujillo in "Apocalypto"
Source: Sci Fi
Raoul Trujillo, a Native American from the Apache & Ute heritage, is an actor, dancer, and former soloist with the Nikolais Dance Theatre and the original choreographer and co-director for the American Indian Dance Theatre.
As an actor Raoul has performed in a number of award winning films and programs including his highly praised role in Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto," "La Femme Nikita" "The New World" with Colin Ferrell and Christian Bale, and many more. His latest project is the SCI FI Channel miniseries "Tin Man" in which he plays Raw, the lion character in the Outer Zone (O.Z.).
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SoSF: Let's talk a little about your role as "Zero Wolf" in "Apocalypto" which was nominated as a winner for a number of film awards. Now, I read in a review of your performance in "Apocalypto" as stating how your character radiated power and was really great at projecting a ferocious, brutal warrior instinct coupled with a sense of moral honor.
RT: Wow, how come I didn't read that, that's a good one (laughter) maybe I could have gotten a better agent (laughter).
SoSF: Where do you draw your energy and focus from for this role?
RT: You know, again, its' another one of those things as an actor and it's funny because I'm really not a trained actor. I worked through it for a bit. I just remember my first teacher in NY he said you know Raoul you have such a naked instinct, don't even study but I think, you might think this is odd but I have a whole long career as a dancer and a choreographer creating movement and creating dances based on life's experiences and beyond that. There's something that I call genetic memory and I am really the antifascist of that character. Like last night I hosted a huge party in Santa Fe, it was filmmakers from all over the world and meeting people and they were like "oh my God, I wouldn't have even know it was you but now that I'm talking to you it like oh, it is you but I'm a really good guy, good natured, I'm happy and positive so in order to do a character like that you just have to completely withdraw yourself from who you are go into those darkest places of what it would be to do this without a soul, without a conscious. It's not like you can really become that, but you can really just take on the sort of steps to get there and as you do it, more and more it get's realized that it's all about, for me, about the body. The more I can just create this armored body for myself, this impenetrable, fearless and I'm really big on the fact that you put on this costume and the makeup, you don't really have to think about it you just become it. Then if you loose yourself in the fact that back in those days, life was cheap, it was just about conquering. It's happened all over the planet so you just have to do is put yourself in its place. You look at a little child on the set and go 'oh what a cutey' then you say, no, no he's not cute he's dispensable and you put yourself in this really horrid energy and at the end of the day you have to like exorcize it. (laughter) . But it's really that kind of process for me but at the same time, it doesn't have to linger. The minute the scene is cut and you're having coffee and talking to somebody, it's gone. You just have to really know that in that moment you put it on, you just breathe it into you like a possession and then when you're done, let out and let it go. It's hard to explain, but it happens and when you see the movie you say 'ooh, my God' that's guy is really nasty but at the same time I wanted to give him a humanity too. I think it's there because he has a son who is killed and all that you realize he's just doing what he's told he has no thoughts about it. When you can devoid your character from having his own thoughts about things it would be like C.I.A. going out and starting these whole military coos all over the planet and you don't think about whether it's right or wrong, it's just your job and you separate yourself from any kind of morality and that's kind of what I do as an actor, just try not to let Raoul be a part of it what so ever, otherwise I wouldn't do those kind of movies (laughter) I'm too nice of a guy (laughter).
SoSF: Where exactly was this movie shot?
RT: We shot that in the southern Veracruz on the gulf coast of Mexico in the only little bit of rain forest left in that part of Mexico.
SoSF: Tell us about the experience working with Mel Gibson.
RT: You know, I'm probably one of those few people, I loved working with him. He's a genius. We had an instant rapport. He had immediate respect for me as an actor and as a human being. He's one of the kind of guys that when he's directing you, you're an actor and when you're not working, you're just talking about life. His knowledge about mysticism and spirituality and esoteric practices from chi- gong to whatever he's knowledgeable about it. I find him just a really fascinating human being. He's difficult and never for me in the sense that as an actor, but being an actor working in his movies, he's incredibly difficult. We shot 18 - 19 hours a day
SoSF: Wow!
RT: He's the kind of director that wants his people ready at 7:30AM whether you're used or not and that's because he's really hard and especially in with a film that was supposed to go for 4 months ended up going 10 months and at the end of 5 or 6 months, you're burnt out. And because of all the running, you're not resting, that was difficult but he puts himself through the same paces so you kind of look at him as a fearless leader in that way, it's like well, it's not like we're doing this on our own, he's in it with us, he's in the trenches with us. He's staying up just as long, he's working more so you just kind of just say ok if he can do it, I can do it. Because you believe in him as a director and as an artist, more importantly, and the project because you walk on these sets and it's like oh my God, the detail so you just say to yourself, I can do this, I can rest when I'm dead (laughter). You just make yourself do it and it's not easy, it's very hard but you come out of it at the end of it watching it and going 'wow', that was worth it and the only thing that would change it is I would ask for more money (laughter) I would ask for a personal masseuse and a chiropractor, yeah all that stuff (laughter). He's a genus and I completely admire the man and as an artist and I would work for him again at the drop of a hat but I would ask for more money (laughter)
SoSF: What kind of research did you have to do in preparation for the project?
RT: I had spent so much time down there, anyway over the last 30 years. I've spent amongst the Mayan, amongst every kind of indigenous group through Mt. Mexico with Shamanistic tribes so it really wasn't. All I had to do for myself is to create my own back story. Being that I was almost a foot taller than everybody else, I come from northern apache youth tribe and gave myself the fact that I'm a mercenary and I went down there and that was common. There were tribes for instance the Zapotec's would cross over with eastern Mayan's and the Mixtec would cross over and so I just said I'm a mercenary, I've come down there amongst the Mayan's and I'm going to be their war general. I don't look Mayan, even with the prosthetic nose, its too big, but I am going to say this is who I am so I gave myself a back story and that's what I stuck with. In terms of all the other, I let the language come through me as I love speaking different languages but I think the last 30 years living down amongst those people and researching for the last 30 years just prepared me for the role and thank you to Terry Malick and Sarah Green for saying Mel, you gotta hire this guy (laughter).
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Raoul Trujillo in "Apocalypto" |
Raoul Trujillo, a Native American from the Apache & Ute heritage, is an actor, dancer, and former soloist with the Nikolais Dance Theatre and the original choreographer and co-director for the American Indian Dance Theatre.
As an actor Raoul has performed in a number of award winning films and programs including his highly praised role in Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto," "La Femme Nikita" "The New World" with Colin Ferrell and Christian Bale, and many more. His latest project is the SCI FI Channel miniseries "Tin Man" in which he plays Raw, the lion character in the Outer Zone (O.Z.).
SoSF: Let's talk a little about your role as "Zero Wolf" in "Apocalypto" which was nominated as a winner for a number of film awards. Now, I read in a review of your performance in "Apocalypto" as stating how your character radiated power and was really great at projecting a ferocious, brutal warrior instinct coupled with a sense of moral honor.
RT: Wow, how come I didn't read that, that's a good one (laughter) maybe I could have gotten a better agent (laughter).
SoSF: Where do you draw your energy and focus from for this role?
RT: You know, again, its' another one of those things as an actor and it's funny because I'm really not a trained actor. I worked through it for a bit. I just remember my first teacher in NY he said you know Raoul you have such a naked instinct, don't even study but I think, you might think this is odd but I have a whole long career as a dancer and a choreographer creating movement and creating dances based on life's experiences and beyond that. There's something that I call genetic memory and I am really the antifascist of that character. Like last night I hosted a huge party in Santa Fe, it was filmmakers from all over the world and meeting people and they were like "oh my God, I wouldn't have even know it was you but now that I'm talking to you it like oh, it is you but I'm a really good guy, good natured, I'm happy and positive so in order to do a character like that you just have to completely withdraw yourself from who you are go into those darkest places of what it would be to do this without a soul, without a conscious. It's not like you can really become that, but you can really just take on the sort of steps to get there and as you do it, more and more it get's realized that it's all about, for me, about the body. The more I can just create this armored body for myself, this impenetrable, fearless and I'm really big on the fact that you put on this costume and the makeup, you don't really have to think about it you just become it. Then if you loose yourself in the fact that back in those days, life was cheap, it was just about conquering. It's happened all over the planet so you just have to do is put yourself in its place. You look at a little child on the set and go 'oh what a cutey' then you say, no, no he's not cute he's dispensable and you put yourself in this really horrid energy and at the end of the day you have to like exorcize it. (laughter) . But it's really that kind of process for me but at the same time, it doesn't have to linger. The minute the scene is cut and you're having coffee and talking to somebody, it's gone. You just have to really know that in that moment you put it on, you just breathe it into you like a possession and then when you're done, let out and let it go. It's hard to explain, but it happens and when you see the movie you say 'ooh, my God' that's guy is really nasty but at the same time I wanted to give him a humanity too. I think it's there because he has a son who is killed and all that you realize he's just doing what he's told he has no thoughts about it. When you can devoid your character from having his own thoughts about things it would be like C.I.A. going out and starting these whole military coos all over the planet and you don't think about whether it's right or wrong, it's just your job and you separate yourself from any kind of morality and that's kind of what I do as an actor, just try not to let Raoul be a part of it what so ever, otherwise I wouldn't do those kind of movies (laughter) I'm too nice of a guy (laughter).
SoSF: Where exactly was this movie shot?
RT: We shot that in the southern Veracruz on the gulf coast of Mexico in the only little bit of rain forest left in that part of Mexico.
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SoSF: Tell us about the experience working with Mel Gibson.
RT: You know, I'm probably one of those few people, I loved working with him. He's a genius. We had an instant rapport. He had immediate respect for me as an actor and as a human being. He's one of the kind of guys that when he's directing you, you're an actor and when you're not working, you're just talking about life. His knowledge about mysticism and spirituality and esoteric practices from chi- gong to whatever he's knowledgeable about it. I find him just a really fascinating human being. He's difficult and never for me in the sense that as an actor, but being an actor working in his movies, he's incredibly difficult. We shot 18 - 19 hours a day
SoSF: Wow!
RT: He's the kind of director that wants his people ready at 7:30AM whether you're used or not and that's because he's really hard and especially in with a film that was supposed to go for 4 months ended up going 10 months and at the end of 5 or 6 months, you're burnt out. And because of all the running, you're not resting, that was difficult but he puts himself through the same paces so you kind of look at him as a fearless leader in that way, it's like well, it's not like we're doing this on our own, he's in it with us, he's in the trenches with us. He's staying up just as long, he's working more so you just kind of just say ok if he can do it, I can do it. Because you believe in him as a director and as an artist, more importantly, and the project because you walk on these sets and it's like oh my God, the detail so you just say to yourself, I can do this, I can rest when I'm dead (laughter). You just make yourself do it and it's not easy, it's very hard but you come out of it at the end of it watching it and going 'wow', that was worth it and the only thing that would change it is I would ask for more money (laughter) I would ask for a personal masseuse and a chiropractor, yeah all that stuff (laughter). He's a genus and I completely admire the man and as an artist and I would work for him again at the drop of a hat but I would ask for more money (laughter)
SoSF: What kind of research did you have to do in preparation for the project?
RT: I had spent so much time down there, anyway over the last 30 years. I've spent amongst the Mayan, amongst every kind of indigenous group through Mt. Mexico with Shamanistic tribes so it really wasn't. All I had to do for myself is to create my own back story. Being that I was almost a foot taller than everybody else, I come from northern apache youth tribe and gave myself the fact that I'm a mercenary and I went down there and that was common. There were tribes for instance the Zapotec's would cross over with eastern Mayan's and the Mixtec would cross over and so I just said I'm a mercenary, I've come down there amongst the Mayan's and I'm going to be their war general. I don't look Mayan, even with the prosthetic nose, its too big, but I am going to say this is who I am so I gave myself a back story and that's what I stuck with. In terms of all the other, I let the language come through me as I love speaking different languages but I think the last 30 years living down amongst those people and researching for the last 30 years just prepared me for the role and thank you to Terry Malick and Sarah Green for saying Mel, you gotta hire this guy (laughter).
10 DECEMBER 2007.- "BRAVEHEART" MOBILE GAME
Mobile Game early next year!
Source: www.pocketgame.co.uk
Hong Kong based developer Artificial Life has announced that it's signed the rights to make a mobile game based on Braveheart, Paramount Pictures' blockbuster movie.
According to the company, the game will be "of the action genre with real-time strategy features and enhanced 3D graphics", which sounds like they're doing something a bit more imaginative than the usual platform film fodder.
The game's due out early next year, while Artificial Life is also working on a game based on another Paramount film, Shooter. It's due out around the same time.
Mel Gibson fans will be pleased.
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Hong Kong based developer Artificial Life has announced that it's signed the rights to make a mobile game based on Braveheart, Paramount Pictures' blockbuster movie.
According to the company, the game will be "of the action genre with real-time strategy features and enhanced 3D graphics", which sounds like they're doing something a bit more imaginative than the usual platform film fodder.
The game's due out early next year, while Artificial Life is also working on a game based on another Paramount film, Shooter. It's due out around the same time.
Mel Gibson fans will be pleased.
10 DECEMBER 2007.- "ZEN"
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11 DECEMBER 2007.- NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Don´t pay attention to silly rumours! XMAS is round the corner!
Source: The Celebrity Truth
Mel Gibson's denial ends weeks of speculation about the rumour posted by a
Turkish news website.
According to todayszaman.com, The Foundation for the Struggle Against Baseless Allegations of Genocide (ASIMED) has targeted Gibson to attempt to dissuade him "from playing a role in a film that underscores claims of an alleged genocide of Anatolian Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I."
A Professor at Ataturk University told the website that, "We have begun sending documents about the truth of the situation to Gibson. We started an e-mail campaign to urge him to decline the role and to not allow this film to be shot at his production company."
Yesterday Gibson´s representative denied any involvement with the "famous" production, "We don't know where that started. He doesn't know anything about the project. Never heard of it."
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Don´t pay attention to silly rumours! XMAS is round the corner!
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Mel Gibson's denial ends weeks of speculation about the rumour posted by a Turkish news website.
According to todayszaman.com, The Foundation for the Struggle Against Baseless Allegations of Genocide (ASIMED) has targeted Gibson to attempt to dissuade him "from playing a role in a film that underscores claims of an alleged genocide of Anatolian Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I."
A Professor at Ataturk University told the website that, "We have begun sending documents about the truth of the situation to Gibson. We started an e-mail campaign to urge him to decline the role and to not allow this film to be shot at his production company."
Yesterday Gibson´s representative denied any involvement with the "famous" production, "We don't know where that started. He doesn't know anything about the project. Never heard of it."
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