The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Michael Fassbender, Jamie Foxx, and Peter Dinklage are in talks to star in the Gibson-helmed remake of the 1969 Sam Peckinpah western The Wild Bunch for Warner Bros.

Gibson also co-wrote the script with Bryan Bagby. Jerry Bruckheimer is attached to produce. 

The remake will be the first time Gibson steps behind the camera since Hacksaw Ridge in 2016, which won two Oscars and received four other nominations including Best Picture and Best Director.

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Gibson will pen the script alongside Bryan Bagby and will also serve as executive producer. 

The 1969 original film was directed by Sam Peckinpah followed an aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the wild west is losing its place to the industrial age. The original starred Wiliam Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O’Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sanchez, and Ben Johnson.

This is the first time Gibson will serve as director since 2016’s Hacksaw Ridge. Gibson earned an Oscar nomination for his work on the feature.

Additional details are kept under wraps, it is unknown when shooting will start or if the remake will follow the original or opt to tell a different story. 

You can see Gibson next in the Tommy Wirkola-directed War Pigs.

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The Hollywood Reporter confirms that the 62-year-old actor will helm a new World War II naval war movie titled Destroyer.This will be the first time the actor returns to the director’s chair after receiving an Oscar nomination for Hacksaw Ridge.

The film is based on the John Wukovits book Hell From the Heavens: The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II’s Greatest Kamikaze Attack. When writing the book, Wukovitz used personal interviews and memoirs of crew members who had served on the ship that withstood multiple kamikaze attacks and was therefore nicknamed “The Ship That Would Not Die.”

The script is penned by Rosalind Ross and will center on the Battle of Okinawa and medic Desmond Doss. Destroyer is being produced at Gianni Nunnari’s Hollywood Gang Productions. 

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The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Michael Fassbender, Jamie Foxx, and Peter Dinklage are in talks to star in the Gibson-helmed remake of the 1969 Sam Peckinpah western The Wild Bunch for Warner Bros.

Gibson also co-wrote the script with Bryan Bagby. Jerry Bruckheimer is attached to produce. 

The remake will be the first time Gibson steps behind the camera since Hacksaw Ridge in 2016, which won two Oscars and received four other nominations including Best Picture and Best Director.

The post Michael Fassbender, Jamie Foxx, Peter Dinklage to Join “Wild Bunch” Remake appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.

Gibson will pen the script alongside Bryan Bagby and will also serve as executive producer. 

The 1969 original film was directed by Sam Peckinpah followed an aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the wild west is losing its place to the industrial age. The original starred Wiliam Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O’Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sanchez, and Ben Johnson.

This is the first time Gibson will serve as director since 2016’s Hacksaw Ridge. Gibson earned an Oscar nomination for his work on the feature.

Additional details are kept under wraps, it is unknown when shooting will start or if the remake will follow the original or opt to tell a different story. 

You can see Gibson next in the Tommy Wirkola-directed War Pigs.

The post Mel Gibson to Write and Direct “The Wild Bunch” Remake appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.

The Hollywood Reporter confirms that the 62-year-old actor will helm a new World War II naval war movie titled Destroyer.This will be the first time the actor returns to the director’s chair after receiving an Oscar nomination for Hacksaw Ridge.

The film is based on the John Wukovits book Hell From the Heavens: The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II’s Greatest Kamikaze Attack. When writing the book, Wukovitz used personal interviews and memoirs of crew members who had served on the ship that withstood multiple kamikaze attacks and was therefore nicknamed “The Ship That Would Not Die.”

The script is penned by Rosalind Ross and will center on the Battle of Okinawa and medic Desmond Doss. Destroyer is being produced at Gianni Nunnari’s Hollywood Gang Productions. 

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