Looks like despite his recent Oscar nominations for Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson will have to wait before he is rehabilitated in the eyes of the left.
A new movie project has just been announced re-teaming Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn for Dragged Across Concrete, a crime thriller about police brutality (Vaughn plays a sergeant in Hacksaw Ridge).
The Hollywood Reporter, which first broke the news, wrote:”Gibson and Vaughn will play cops who are suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics gets wide attention. They then descend into the criminal underworld to exact vengeance.”
The report also quoted director S.Craig Zahler who said: “Dragged Across Concrete is best suited to my goal of making a heartfelt, surprising, sad, funny, shocking, and memorable world with multiple viewpoints. As is often the case in my novels and screenplays, the protagonists are in perilous circumstances against which they struggle in different and surprising—though logical—ways. I am absolutely thrilled to have Mel and Vince agree to play the lead roles.”
Who knows if the brutality is racially-motivated? We haven’t read the script but would note that the director said nothing about racial conflict in his summary to the Hollywood Reporter.
SJWs also haven’t read the script but that didn’t stop them reacting with fury on social media.
Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn in a movie where the police that uphold police brutality are made into good guys. Gonna be a no on my part.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) February 1, 2017
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Beyonce’s babies deserve better than to be brought into a world where Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn play antihero racist cops
— Alanna Bennett (@AlannaBennett) February 1, 2017
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@amaditalks just yuck!
— Susan McPherson (@susanmcp1) February 2, 2017
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They’re paying Mel Gibson (a racist/antisemitic) to “play” a racist on camera https://t.co/OdOojsH0yG
— heartthrob (@lilbadbob) February 1, 2017
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Vaughn and Gibson recently aroused liberal ire for looking ‘evil’ while listening to Meryl Streep’s anti-Trump tirade at the Golden Globes.
It used to be that people judged movies on the trailer; now they’re judging them on the announcement.
And wouldn’t you know it, the boycott’s already begun…
#Boycott #Gibson #Vaughn https://t.co/JZgweLL8fl
— Victoria Looseleaf (@looseleafreport) February 1, 2017