{"id":2688,"date":"2005-07-24T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/07\/apocalypto-in-ancient-mayan\/"},"modified":"2005-07-24T23:22:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-24T23:22:00","slug":"apocalypto-in-ancient-mayan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/07\/apocalypto-in-ancient-mayan.html","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypto — in ancient Mayan!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The news regarding Apocalypto<\/a><\/i>, Mel Gibson\u2019s follow-up to The Passion<\/a><\/i>, just gets better and better. Variety<\/a><\/i> now reports:<\/span><\/p>\n

When production chiefs from selected studios trooped to Icon Prods. headquarters after an invite to read the film Mel Gibson planned for summer 2006, they were surprised at the very first page of the script.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dialogue you are about to read will not be spoken in English.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gibson, who last made the most successful Aramaic-language film ever, is at it again.<\/p>\n

\u201cApocalypto\u201d hardly fits the traditional definition of a summer film. Set 500 years ago, pic will be filmed in an obscure Mayan dialect, presumably with the same kind of subtitles Gibson reluctantly added to \u201cThe Passion of the Christ.\u201d It will star a neophyte cast indigenous to the region of Mexico where Gibson will shoot in October. And it likely will carry an R rating, unless Gibson tempers the onscreen depiction of violent scenes he wrote in his script.<\/p>\n

Since Gibson\u2019s bankrolling his pic and will sell foreign himself, studios were offered only a rent-a-system deal, such as George Lucas had with 20th Century Fox for his last three \u201cStar Wars\u201d films. And because \u201cApocalypto\u201d is not a religious pic, there\u2019s no guarantee of an encore turnout of the church groups and hardcore Catholics who made \u201cThe Passion of the Christ\u201d a nearly $1 billion box office\/DVD bonanza.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I cannot help but wonder whether those church groups are happy to see what Mel is doing now with all the profits he raked in, after some of them bought up the tickets for entire theatres and gave them away! For months, there were rumours that he would put the money towards making a movie about the Maccabees or the Apostles or Saint Francis of Assisi \u2014 but apparently not.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, there is a sentence in the second-to-last paragraph quoted here that is a bit puzzling, since earlier reports indicated the film would be taking place 3,000<\/i> years ago, not 500 years ago. The disinformation campaign has apparently already begun!<\/p>\n

And as for the language thing, it pre-dates even The Passion<\/i> \u2014 as I note here<\/a>, Gibson apparently would have liked to film Braveheart<\/a><\/i> in subtitles, too, or so he says in that film\u2019s DVD commentary.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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