What happened to Mel Gibson, actor of Mad Max, Lethal Weapon and Braveheart, who ruined his career with hate speech and bad attitudes on film sets, but who is now back in action.
Mel Gibson is an American actor and filmmaker remembered for roles such as Max Rockatansky in the Mad Max film saga, or that of Sargento Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon, and for giving life to William Wallace in Braveheart (1995), a film in which he also served as director.
At 68 years old, Mel Gibson seems to still be in top shape and eager to continue making films both in front of and behind the cameras, although his career was cut short when he began to be part of the hollywood blacklist.
What happened to Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky in Mad Max 2. The Road Warrior (1981)
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson He was born in New York, United States, in early 1956. He spent his childhood between the United States and Australia, where he ended up graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney.
Still while studying, Mel Gibson He made his film debut with the film Summer City (1977), from Christopher Fraserand shortly after graduating he went on to star in one of the most famous dystopian science fiction sagas of all time: Mad Max, by George Miller, in which he gave life to the character of Max Rockatansky.
The first film in the franchise was Mad Max. highway savages (1979), which was followed a few years later: Mad Max 2. The Road Warrior (1981) y Mad Max 3. Beyond Thunderdome (1985).
George Miller performed a reboot Mad Max in 2015, titled Mad Max: Fury Road, starring Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy. Now its prequel, Furiosa: from the Mad Max saga (2024), is dangerously close to the big screen, with Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth leading the cast.
None of them have had Mel Gibson in the cast, nor the former actor Mad Max He seems to want to return to the saga: “I spoke with George and there was a time when I was going to participate, but I'm a little old for that,” the interpreter declared in 2023.
Danny Glover and Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
Shortly after finishing the trilogy of Mad Max, the former actor of Max Rockatansky became part of another popular saga, on that occasion of a action comedy known as Lethal Weapon and directed by Richard Donnerwhich had four deliveries: lethal weapon (1987), lethal weapon 2 (1989), lethal weapon 3 (1992) y lethal weapon 4 (1998).
More than 20 years later After the premiere of the last film in the saga, Mel Gibson is preparing to reprise the role of Sergeant Martin Riggs along with Danny Glover as Roger Murtaugh in a fifth installment, taking over the leadership of Richard Donner after his death. The release date of Lethal Weapon 5, yet to be specified, is scheduled for 2025.
Mel Gibson antagonizing all groups
Mel Gibson directing Jim Caviezel in The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Between the nineties and entering the first decade of the new century, Mel Gibson not only made movies, he also built a terrible reputation for his attitudes and statements that led him to end up on the Hollywood blacklist.
During the filming of Hamlet, the honor of revenge (1990), from Franco ZeffirelliMel Gibson did not stop making crude jokes that Helena Bonham Carter complained about, but his jokes did not end there, because with the promotion of the film he took the opportunity to laugh at homosexuals.
When he directed and wrote The Passion of the Christ (2004), Mel Gibson did so as an anti-Semitic tool, although that was not the only occasion in which he the actor of Lethal Weapon he messed with Jewish people, something the screenwriter witnessed Joe Eszterhas.
In his private life, there was no shortage of violence: his girlfriend at the time, the pianist Oksana Grigorieva, attacked her physically and verbally, breaking a couple of her teeth. The relationship ended in 2010 with a restraining order for Mel Gibson and an impeccable stain on his professional career.
Mel Gibson today
Mel Gibson in Killing Santa (2020)
Nonetheless, Danny Glover's former partner He never stopped making films, and when in 2016 he released the war drama Every Last Man, which was nominated for six Oscars, it almost seemed that he had received his redemption, although as an actor he once again gave life to no character as memorable as in its beginnings.
In recent years, we have seen Mel Gibson starring in feature films such as: Kill Santa (2020) from Eshom Nelms e Ian Nelms, die again (2021) by Joe Carnahano Confidential Informant (2023) Michael Oblowitz.
Mel Gibson as Cormac O'Connor in The Continental: The John Wick Universe (2023)
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His most notable role has been in the miniseries The Continental: From the John Wick Universe (2023), in which he gave birth to the antagonist Cormac O’Connor.
Albert Hughes, the director of the production, defended the casting of the actor, stating that he was a very good professional and that he fit perfectly into the role they needed, despite knowing his story both in front of and behind the cameras.
In addition to assuming the direction of the new installment of Lethal Weapon, Mel Gibson is also working on a sequel to his most controversial film: The Passion of Christ: Resurrection, which will once again feature Jim Caviezel In the role of Jesus, and that will arrive divided into two parts. At the moment, it seems that it will be released in February 2025, may God catch us confessed!
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