I don’t know if Mel Gibson is holding grudges against Jews but he sure loves Mexico and I still think he’s a damn great filmmaker. Via The Associated Press, a Mexican governor, Veracruz Gov. Fidel Herrera says Mel Gibson will make a movie at a prison in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz next year, part of the Ignacio Allende prison will be emptied in January “because a grand production will be filmed there with our friend, the actor and producer Mel Gibson.”…
He may not have the key to the city but Gibson is officially Mexico’s friend. I thought only presidents could get that treatment.
Details are still kept under wrap but Gibson visited the prison in April 2008. He filmed the 2006 Mayan-language movie Apocalypto in Veracruz
It’s unclear yet if Gibson is going to make a prison movie set in that location or he’s going to make a movie about Ignacio José de Allende y Unzaga, “a captain of the Spanish Army in Mexico who came to sympathize with the Mexican independence movement. He fought along with Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in the first stage of the struggle, eventually succeeding him in leadership of the rebellion. Allende was captured by Spanish colonial authorities while he was in Chihuahua and executed for treason.”
