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Mel Gibson May Stick His Hand Into Jodie Foster's BEAVER!!
Merrick here...
Mel Gibson may take the leading role in THE BEAVER. Jodie Foster is considering co-starring and is eyeing the project as a directing op.
Some background/refresher: Kyle Killen’s “Beaver” has generated huge heat in development circles, landing the top spot on the Black List last year. The story centers on a grown man who wears a beaver puppet on his hand that he treats as a real person, and those familiar with the script have compared it to “Lars and the Real Girl” and the work of Charlie Kaufman.
...says THIS ENTRY at the RiskyBusinessBlog.
Foster's last directing gig was HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, from a script by the great W.D. Richter. She previously worked alongside Mel during Richard Donner's 1994 adaptation of MAVERICK.
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Mel was walking around with a Beaver puppet on his hand already?
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Please no.
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Seriously, has Mel not been barred for life, from like, the whole of planet Earth? <p>
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You guys couldn't resist your headline, I couldn't resist mine...
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If they make this movie I really hope they take the "The" off the title.
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Just don't. Anyone remember Mel's cameo in Paparazzi?
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July 10, 2009, 9:29 a.m. CST
I know plenty of guys who use their hand as a beaver...
by BurnHollywood
...So what?
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only to create hype and a viral reaction. Why not call the movie FREE BEER AND PUSSY?
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But it does sound kind of awful regardless.
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one sugar tits and hes spitting teeth.
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He is the MAN! Another Oscar nom for Mad Max in this. Speaking of which, GET BACK ON THE ROAD and KILL SOME DOGS OF WAR!!!!
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Mel Gibson ponders whether it makes career sense to thrust himself into Jodie Foster's Beaver. or Mel Gibson ponders to take control of Jodie Foster's Beaver. or Mel Gibson backs away from Jesus and looks to put his unit into Jodie Foster's Beaver.
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Go for it.
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Ya, thats right. Big floppy donkey dick.
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Ya, thats right. Big floppy donkey dick.
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JIM CAVAZIEL REPRISED HIS ROLE AS JESUS TO TAKE ON AGING ACTION STAR MEL GIBSON IN A RELIGIOUS BATTLE THAT WILL HAVE THE WHOLE WORLD PREYING FOR MERCY.
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...but the son of a bitch knows story structure.
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IF THEY DO THE MOHAMMAD MOVIE WITH PHOTO REALISTIC CGI, THAT SHOULD SHUT THOSE CRAZY SUICIDE BOMBERS UP LONG ENOUGH TO ENJOY A NICE CHARACTER PIECE. MEL GIBSON CAN WEAR THE MOTION SUIT AND CAN GROW HIS ARAB BEARD BACK OUT. MAYBE EVEN HAVE A FIGHT SCENE BETWEEN CGI MOHOAMMAD, JESUS, AND SANTA CLAUS.
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Take a cue from Stallone and revisit your iconic character. It will save your career!
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...he wants to star in a film about a guy with a hand puppet? <br> <br> Come on, dude, give us some other epic period piece in a marginalized language. Shit, give us a film about the Tower of Babylon or something. Even if Mel just directed Biblical stories the rest of his career, at least they'd be packed with carnage. But a film about a hand puppet? Rather than Mad Max? Come on.
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Jodie responds, "None for you breeder."
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HOLLYWOOD-SERIOSULY-WHAT THE FUCK? I got a screenplay for you(cheap too!)-it's about a guy who talk to his own shit, after he deposits it in the toilet.Then, in typical hollywood fashion-there's a babe who also pines for his attention..leaving the audience to wonder...will he choose his doodoo or the hot mamma? For a low low price of $50,000 HOLLYWOOD-YOU can find out!
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Yackbacker, yes you can. South Park did it with the Jennifer Lopez/Ben Afleck episode where Cartman had the Jennifer Lopez hand puppet.
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I don't hate you-you're a GREAT DIRECTOR-and you'r a good actor too...don't for this bullshit.Go make a TAKEN-type film-and get back to your testertone fuled films man! Not some redonk bullshit that just can't be a REAL script.
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It gave me LOLZ at the office. You have to imagine it with screaming emphasis on "beaver".
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Love your work regardless of what anyone says about you. You're the man! But listen...DON'T DO THIS FILM! Jodie Foster is talented and everything but you really need to come back with a bang and this isn't it. My suggestion...Try and work with The Hughes Brothers, Paul Verhoeven or Antoine Fuqua on an action/thriller. One of those three directors could do wonders for you. But its going to have to be an action or suspense film. No question about that.
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their really naming a movie the beaver?!?!?!? you cant be serious!!!
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After buying his own private island, cheating on his wife, and the possibility of child support Mel's gotta eat. So daddy's out for a paycheck.
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Mel Gibson has his hand up the Beavers ass..
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I take back what I said, MEL-mutha-phukkin-GIBSON make a Taken like film! Make Max 4, go back to the Thunderdome and RULE! DIRECT a Taken-esque film, make it bloody! make another historical epic, do something other than being directed by Nell.
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I DRINK IT UP! SSssssssspppppppp!
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He made The Passion of the Christ. Though the scene where the Jews take responsibility for Christ's death was deleted, that fact that he actually filmed that scene and second guessed about deleting it didn't sit well will the Jews. And the Hollywood Jew big kahunas need make him an example of him. So his next slip up will be overblown in true Hollywood publicity style. If you are homophobic, you can survive in Hollywood; if you are anti Black; you can survive in Hollywood; if you're anti Islam, you can survive in Hollywood; but if you are ani-Semetic ....
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to show how utterly stupid this site can get.
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You make your own Hollywood, called Icon Pictures.
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HOW ABOUT LETHAL 5?
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This is obviously a remake of the "Leave It to Beaver" film, except with hit men.
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That film was surprisingly fun. My question is will Gibson go insane to "impress Jody Foster?"
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Good job Merrick
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Sounds like Lars the Real Girl meets the Puppet Boy in that Amanda Bynes Snow White adaptation "Sydney White".
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. . . so I'm guessing I'm not the first to say that Mel can sure play crazy. I like the idea as I've heard this is funny but also gets pretty friggin' dark and serious. Also, I think there is a super cool, violent as hell, non Mad Max directing gig out there for Mel. Something totally original that will just blow our little fanboy minds.
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Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster Both Interested in Beaver
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I don't know... Well, the Beaver's not a jew, I can tell you that.
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Mel, we know your crazy in ways that the general public has yet to discover, and doing BEAVER right now will further cement your new status as crazy religious bigot guy. Want to generate some positive PR for a change? Go back and do MAD MAX again like we all want. Thats the smart money.
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TAKEN AGAIN! Starring Mel Gibson! They take his daughter...and yadda yadda yadda.
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....where Mel wears a sock puppet on his dick!
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I lick it up! sssssp!
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Eddie Haskell violently kills Wally, Ward and rapes Misses Cleavor (Jodi Foster) on a pinball machine. <p> At this point in his life, returning from a seedy lifestyle on the West Coast, The Beaver (Mel Gibson) comes back home as an angry old, racial slur spitting version of himself whose out for revenge.
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Okay Mel.....make Lethal Wepaon 22. I'll take that over this fake-ass, to stupid-to-be-true film. And Jodie Foster-what a goddamn shame we lsot you to lesbian-ism.You were kinda a babe in your younger days(like when she directed that film she was in, where you she a genius kid).God, hollywood is all sorts of fucked up. ANYONE WANNA BUY A SCRIPT?
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June Cleaver, "Gee Ward, you were a little rough on the BEAVER last night"!!!
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In this loosely-based biopic of the Menedez brothers killings. Wally and The Beaver plan the murders of their abusive parents, Ward and June.
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That's his bread & butter. I'm really looking forward to "Edge of Darkness" though.
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You jackass!
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About a man who talk to his imaginary CHEESY BREAD(stale no less!)-as if it were a real person.Hilarity ensues!Drink it up middle america
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says Mel follows this up with another "chick flick" (a la WHAT WOMEN WANT)..that somehow involves Mel wearing a woman's dress and makeup.COUNT ON IT!
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He's a fucking whack-job, that's why. Putting aside religious beliefs, what sort of person says - IN PUBLIC PRESS - that his wife (of the time) wouldn't get into Heaven. <p> Seems like he skipped the common sense gene.
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I heard "The Beaver" will feature cameos from Pinky Lee, Harry Dean Stanton, and George W. Bush.
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...opening wide at a theater near you!
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Featuring music from Pink, Whitesnake, Lovin' Spoonful, 10CC, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, and The Slits.
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"Thanks. I just had it stuffed." <p>Mad Mel and Foster = Goodness
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It's a film about a man who wears a beaver puppet on his hand For Fucks Sake!! <br> <br> I'll wait for the remake.
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They're still kicking themselves in the ass over passing Passion, so it went to Newcastle, and made a mint. Hollywood is pretty thick skinned about everything except money.
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LIKE IN THAT HORRID JESUS MOVIE? MY GOD. LITERALLY. HOW ANYONE CAN CONSIDER MEL FOR ANYTHING BUT LIGHT YARD WORK IS FUCKING BEYOND ME. FFS.
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We know Mel "The King of All Nipple Rubs" Gibson would have none of that.
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July 10, 2009, 1:11 p.m. CST
HAHAHA, it's funny because beaver is another word for vagina!
by TheMarineBiologist
Classy, AICN.
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is cool.
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This screenplay is really overrated. I did not even chuckle as I was reading it so I don't think it's a comedy. Then again, I thought Butter was awesome and some think that was overrated. I really don't see any similarities to kaufman's writing other than it's weird subject matter.
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Why would people complain about this? Vag jokes are funny!
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Bobcat Goldthwait. Yea, I'm serious.
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WTF?!?!?!
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MOVIE OF THE YEAR, RIGHT THERE. MOVIE OF THE FUCKING YEAR.
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At this point, fuck it. Just do SOMETHING Mel. Really though, can't you give us another kick-ass adventure like Apocalypto?
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this year, doesn't he?
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Every young boy's dream. At leat if you're an Old boy like me.
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Dark Shite for the win.
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I've always found Foster to be milftastic...perhaps I can get her back to our bullpen. I do have what the ladies like. You know it.
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Just have him repeat it over and over during the movie.
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Don't care if it's been said-That is some funny shit.
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...are why so many remakes are greenlit these days.
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Well shot. And this sounds perfect for good ol Mel. The guys fuckin batshit insane, I can't wait to see him make all those funny faces he does in every movie at an inanimate object. I'm game. I hope he smears his shit all over the walls in one scene too. For good measure.
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We MUST find a way to harness the heat being generated by Kyle Killen's Beaver! It can be converted to safe green energy. <P> Hmmm, perhaps Kyle's Beaver Heat could power Timberlake's Green Lantern Ring?
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That was kinda funny, wasn't it?
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That would have been my version of the title.
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Another alternative.
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Keep em comin!
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I am assuming it's not a run-of-the-mill blacklist, because if this generated (negative) "heat" and became the most frowned-upon film in Hollywood, surely you'd be telling us why. So what does that mean?
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No one will ever top that headline for sheer belly laughs.
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hurls himself headlong into Jodie Foster's Beaver!
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Mel Gibson in tenative talks to tear into Jodie Foster's Beaver!
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GOOD LUCK BUDDY!
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July 10, 2009, 7:28 p.m. CST
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by Pop_aristocrat
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I am so there. Mel you have earned fisting rights, you crazy jew hater you.
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'Hey Sugartits, where do you want me?'
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'Mel, that's not the beaver you're supposed to put your hand in.'
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HOLE
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A beaver on his hand. Really? A beaver on his hand. I don't know what the black list is but this should be put back on it.
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Next to Kevin Smith's A COUPLE OF DICKS.
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From the Maker of SNATCH...
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July 10, 2009, 11:09 p.m. CST
Triple feature: Foster's BEAVER. Ritchie's SNATCH. Kelly's THE B
by Serious Black
It is meant to be. Now if only someone would title a movie GASH or MUFF...
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Casting Mel Gibson as a crazy guy. A thrill ride from Y to Z.
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BY REFUSING TO DIVE IN BEAVER - NEW AICN HEADLINE, 09 09 09
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July 12, 2009, 12:52 p.m. CST
Mel Gibson replaces his Passion of Christ with a Passion for Jod
by Avon
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...the well dried up.
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Serio, fucking Obama sat in Jeremiah Wright's church for a decade plus, as that doddering psycho preached all manner of anti-white/jew/asian hate, and it didn't stop his weirdo, svengali ass from being elected president. <p> also, i lolled when Bruno called Gibson der fuhrer.
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"LAMB CHOP" can lick Jodie Foster's beaver any day of the week!!!
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July 12, 2009, 11:30 p.m. CST
Like Kaufman = Its corny but confusing so Kaufman is our excuse
by fisheater
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applied mechanics. It was very moist and humid there but a thoroughly enjoyable experience for me. I learned to play the skin flute on campus there. when i play it now it always reminds me of happy times at Beaver college such as the time this tasty coed played country on her clitar.
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they hurt when I twist em!!!!!!!!!!
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they hurt when I twist em!!!!!!!!!!
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I got a chance to read "THE CURSE OF MEDUSA" written by Tom Welch & J Lee when I used to work at Overbrook Entertainment. It was AWESOME! Jada Pinkett, a boss of mine, optioned the script to play the title role, but then had her hospital show picked up. Now the writers went somewhere else. Hopefully it gets made. It's epic.
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