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Mel Gibson says his Wild Bunch remake “was a bad idea at first”

October 17, 2018 by Gary Collinson

While some might say it still is, Mel Gibson has revealed during an interview with Deadline that he thought his recently-announced remake of Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch was ” bad idea at first”, before he found his own take on the classic 1969 western.

“I thought it was a bad idea at first,” said Gibson, who was speaking at a Q&A following a screening of his new film Dragged Across Concrete.. “Why make The Wild Bunch again? Who would do that? I thought about it and I thought about it some more, and then I thought of a way [into the story]. A way to tell the story. So I’ve been sitting in a room with a writer and it’s been a blast. So it started as a bad idea, but it’s heading toward something that could be special. It’s about last chances and guys with lives of accrued violence. … Those guys [in the original film]? They laugh a lot, but it isn’t funny. “

Gibson is set to direct The Wild Bunch, as well as penning the script for the remake with Bryan Bagby. The actor and filmmaker has a number of other projects on his directing slate including World War II film Destroyer, the long-gestating Viking epic Berserker and biblical sequel The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection, but it’s though that The Wild Bunch will now take priority.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Mel Gibson, The Wild Bunch

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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