Mel Gibson to tackle mini-series on Holocaust
NewsMax.comTuesday, Dec. 6, 2005 9:30 p.m. EST
Mel Gibson Plans TV Miniseries on Holocaust
You can say this about Mel Gibson: He isn't afraid to tackle sensitive topics.
The actor, who defied the odds with the blockbuster success of his film "The Passion of the Christ," is turning his attention to the Holocaust.
According to the New York Times, Gibson's television production company is developing a four-hour nonfiction miniseries for ABC based on the life of Flory A. Van Beek, a Dutch Jew whose gentile neighbors hid her from the Nazis but who lost several relatives in concentration camps.
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Mel Gibson planning Holocaust miniseries
Thursday, December 8, 2005; Posted: 9:48 a.m. EST (14:48 GMT)
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Mel Gibson is stirring passions again with his latest project -- a nonfiction TV movie set against the backdrop of the Holocaust.
Gibson's Con Artist Productions is developing "Flory" for ABC, based on the true story of a Dutch Jew named Flory Van Beek and her non-Jewish boyfriend who sheltered her from the Nazis, The New York Times and Variety reported in Wednesday editions.
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Gibson plans Holocaust mini-series
By David M. Halbfinger
The New York Times
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2005
LOS ANGELES Mel Gibson, whose "The Passion of the Christ" was criticized by some as anti-Semitic - and whose father has said that the Holocaust did not happen - is developing a nonfiction mini-series about the Holocaust.
Gibson's television production company will base the four-hour miniseries for ABC on the self-published memoir of Flory Van Beek, a Dutch Jew whose gentile neighbors hid her from the Nazis but who lost several relatives in the concentration camps.
The project is in its early stages, so there is no guarantee that it will be completed. Gibson is not expected to act in the mini-series, nor is it certain that his name, rather than his company's, will be publicly attached to the final product, according to several people involved in developing it. But Quinn Taylor, ABC's senior vice president for movies for television, acknowledged that the attention-getting value of having Gibson attached to a Holocaust project was a factor.
"Controversy's publicity, and vice versa," Taylor said.
Gibson's father, Hutton Gibson, has repeatedly denied that the Holocaust happened. Before the release of "The Passion of the Christ," Hutton Gibson said that accounts of the Holocaust were mostly "fiction" and asserted that there were more Jews in Europe after World War II than before.
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