Mel Gibson goes Medici

Mel Gibson will direct a film on Lorenzo de Medici, aka The Magnificent, according to the web portal Cinemotore. The film, expected to be the most costly in Hollywood historywith a projected budget of over 20 million dollarswill be filmed entirely in Italy, including Florence and nearby areas, and could feature a cast composed of Italian actors. Gibson, whose controversial film The Passion of Christ was also filmed in Italy (at Cinecitt studios and the town of Matera), is currently completing Apocalypto, a epic about the end of Mayan civilisation.