Mel Gibson Is Pitting Jesus Against Zelda in a Big Screen Battle
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Flight Risk , released earlier this year, had one of the funniest marketing campaigns I’ve ever seen. Not because the movie looked dumb, with Mark Wahlberg sporting a stupid-looking bald cap. Also, the premise didn’t seem that bad (I heard it was all bad). What was amusing was how hard the producers tried to capitalize on Mel Gibson’s legacy, without mentioning his name. They wanted the clout of Braveheart and Apocalypto , but not the man who made them, whose history of horrific remarks has made him a Hollywood pariah.
Gibson has been caught saying racist and bigoted slurs so many times you’d think he was trying to become a right-wing comic on TikTok. The dud