Gibson, De Niro in "Edge of Darkness"

I still love Mel Gibson’s acting, even after all the stuff he went through a few years ago. Sometimes, you have to just let things go. Otherwise, you spend your entire life holding things against people, and who knows, maybe they’ve cleaned up their act. I don’t know if that’s true in Gibson’s case, but I hope so. I picked up a Mad Max DVD the other day and can’t wait to watch it. Yeah, I’ve probably seen it 20 times.  

Anyway, I’ll be first in line to see Edge of Darkness, a Martin Campbell-directed film that starts shooting this month in Massachusetts. Gibson is just one reason. The other is Robert De Niro, who’s close to signing on as co-star.

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Gibson stars as Thomas Craven, a straitlaced homicide detective for the Boston Police Department and a single dad whose 24-year old daughter is murdered on the steps of his home. The cop assumes he was the target, but his investigation uncovers his daughter’s secret life, a corporate cover-up, and government collusion. De Niro will play an operative sent in to clean up the evidence.

Scripted by William Monahan, the drama is an adaptation of a 1985 six-hour BBC miniseries that Campbell also directed. De Niro recently completed Everybody’s Fine and will next be seen starring with Al Pacino in the Jon Avnet-directed Righteous Kill.

Image: Mel Gibson, Apocalypto, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2006; Al Pacino, 88 Minutes, Columbia Pictures, 2007