By You know Mel Gibson’s been having a difficult time of late when the prospect of him running around and addressing the world through a beaver puppet sounds like the most normal story he’s been involved with in years. Plans to release the Jodie Foster directed comedy The Beaver had to be put on ice after spectacular controversies in its leading man’s personal life became public.
Although the film’s original release date of December 24th has been rescinded, distributors Summit Entertainment have released a first poster and summary. After finding himself pushed out of a cameo in Zack Galifianakis’ The Hangover 2 following protests from the cast, even the slightest suggestion of managing to get his face back into cinemas will be seen as a victory for Gibson and first steps towards making a(nother) comeback.
The trepidation of Summit’s marketing department towards their star is evident in the poster, which almost entirely obscures Gibson’s face behind the comedy puppet (a distant relative of the Caddyshackgopher?) and an amusingly apt message. Perhaps the studio are hoping that the film, which sees a drunken depressive discover a beaver puppet in a bin after a failed suicide attempt and use it to communicate…
You know Mel Gibson's been having a difficult time of late when the prospect of him running around and addressing the world through a beaver puppet sounds like the most normal story he's been involved with in years. Plans to release the Jodie Foster directed comedy The Beaver had to be put on ice after spectacular controversies in its leading man's personal life became public.
Although the film's original release date of December 24th has been rescinded, distributors Summit Entertainment have released a first poster and summary. After finding himself pushed out of a cameo in Zack Galifianakis' The Hangover 2 following protests from the cast, even the slightest suggestion of managing to get his face back into cinemas will be seen as a victory for Gibson and first steps towards making a(nother) comeback.
The trepidation of Summit's marketing department towards their star is evident in the poster, which almost entirely obscures Gibson's face behind the comedy puppet (a distant relative of the Caddyshack gopher?) and an amusingly apt message. Perhaps the studio are hoping that the film, which sees a drunken depressive discover a beaver puppet in a bin after a failed suicide attempt and use it to communicate with his distant family and piece his life back together, will be perceived by audiences as a redemptive story for Gibson. That he would be relying on a possessed talking beaver for salvation manages to be both darkly appropriate and evidence of how far his star has fallen in the past year.
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