New York Daily News reports that Mel Gibson hasn’t had enough of interpreting history and incurring the disdain of the Jewish people. After portraying the Jews as passive Christ killers in that movie of his, he’s now very close to sealing a deal which will allow him to begin production on a film based on My Glorious Brothers, Howard Fast‘s 1948 historical novel about the Maccabees. The story of the mighty Maccabees and how they defended Judaism took place a couple thousand years BCE, but we’re sure he’ll figure out a way to blame them for Jesus anyway.
Fast’s widow is none too keen about Mr. Freako Catholic making a movie about her late husband’s book, but perhaps Anti-Defamation League director Abe Foxman says it best:
“The way [Gibson] treats history … is not the way I would like the world to learn about the heroism of the Maccabees … So, thanks but no thanks.”
Yeah, dude, go make a movie about a saint or something and leave the Hanukkah story to the Weinsteins.