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Get ready for another bloody action-filled war movie. Warner Brothers has announced plans to develop a film about the life of ancient Jewish warrior Judah Maccabee.

The Daily Buzz explains who WB is teaming up with to make the movie.

“Who better to make a movie about the Jewish hero than say, wait for it. Mel Gibson! Gibson, who’s passion for racism is fading from a charge to recreate Judah Maccabee revolt back in 160BC… Well maybe Mel needs to go back to 2006 when he was reported going on an anti-Semitic tirade after being busted for a DUI.”

This agreement comes as a surprise to many in the Jewish community. In addition to his infamous anti-Semitic tirade in 2006, many are still upset about Gibson’s portrayal of Jews in his film “The Passion of the Christ.”

A rabbi and founder of Los Angeles's Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance tells The Hollywood Reporter...

"Mel Gibson has shown nothing but antagonism and disrespect to Jews... Casting him as a director or perhaps as the star of Judah Maccabee is like casting Madoff to be the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or a white supremacist as trying to portray Martin Luther King Jr."

And the director of the Anti Defamation League agrees, adding...

“Judah Maccabee deserves better. He is a hero of the Jewish people and a universal hero in the struggle for religious liberty. It would be a travesty to have his story told by one who has no respect and sensitivity for other people’s religious views.”

A blogger for IndieWire is admittedly dumbfounded by the move-- but notes, it does match up with Gibson’s favorite genre of films.

“The story of Maccabee does fit within the Gibson wheelhouse, with its wide historical scope, morally outraged warrior protagonist and bloody battle sequences."

Mel’s publicist tells TMZ-- Gibson has been working on this project for more than a decade. And according to the LA Times, Gibson at one point considered the Maccabee film to be a follow-up project to “The Passion.”

But hosts of CNN’s American Morning can’t believe he’d even attempt it.

“But I just can't believe that he's going to make this movie and think that people are going to come to see it if Mel Gibson has anything to do with it.”

Gibson says he will decide after the script is written if he will be directing and/or acting in the film.

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