Mel Gibson Going to the "Edge of Darkness"
April 29, 2008

Actor Mel Gibson is back and going to the Edge of Darkness to rejuvenate his acting career. After enduring months of questions surrounding his highly publicized drunken, anti-Semitic remarks after a night out on the town in 2006, Variety reports that Mel Gibson, 52, is returning to the big screen as an actor to take on the role of a police investigator in an adaptation of the former 1985 BBC mini-series Edge of Darkness.

Although Gibson stood on the edge of his own darkness back in 2006, it now appears that Mel is looking solely to the future and ready to flirt with a fictional dark side as Variety reports that he’ll play a by-the-book cop who discovers widespread corruption while investigating the death of his activist daughter.

Prior to directing The Passion of the Christ in 2004 and Apocalypto in 2006, Gibson’s most recent acting roles were in M. Night Shyamalan’s Sings and director Randall Wallace’s We Were Soldiers, both released in 2002.

Written by William Monahan (The Departed), Edge of Darkness will be helmed by Casino Royale director Martin Campbell and will begin shooting this coming August in Boston.