WB tried to make Mel Gibson their Batman
20k Views In the late ’80s, Mel Gibson was a Warner Bros darling. Thanks to his success in the shingle’s “Mad Max” and “Lethal Weapon” franchises, the adopted Aussie thesp was always the first name on the wish list for many of the studio’s big tentpoles back in the day. As production came to a close on the studio’s “Tequila Sunrise” in 1988 – a film in which Gibson gives a terrific, somewhat against-type turn as a former drug dealer – CEO Ted Ashley tried to make ‘Mel Gibson as Batman’ happen. And it wasn’t the first time : Back when Richard Donner (of “Superm...
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