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Mel Gibson Explains Why He's Making A Movie About Biblical Jewish Hero Maccabee
Just recently it was announced that Mel Gibson was collaborating with screenwriter Joe Eszterhas to write, produce and possibly direct a film about ancient Jewish hero Judah Maccabee.
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Given the anti-Semitic comments Mel made during his 2006 drunk driving arrest the announcement raised from eyebrows, and it seemed the project could be a calculated act of contrition on Gibson's part.
But then Jeffrey Goldberg, a writer for The Atlantic, wrote an article detailing a meeting he decided to take with Mel to discuss the film.
His Atlantic colleague Christopher Hitchens, a noted atheist, was planning to write a book attacking Maccabee for being the catalyst for not only modern Judaism, but also Christianity. He urged Goldberg to go and stop Mel from making the movie, but instead Goldberg got an interview that lends some interesting new perspective into the project.
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