It’s pretty standard to choose a topic for a huge film based on current world events, and police brutality happens to be a massive issue in the United States of America.
With a dramatic increase in tragic and unnecessary deaths of multiple African-American men and women at the hands of police officers in the past couple of years, and the consequential rise of Black Lives Matter, the issue of police brutality is a highly-debated topic right now.
So, a movie was clearly going to be made about it sooner or later (yet obviously far before the issue has in any way resolved or even adequately addressed, because the world kinda sucks).
And the *obvious* person to cast in this film as one of the offending police officers is an actor with ohgodjustsomany examples of blatant racism in his past – Mel Gibson!
Yep, Gibson is starring in the ‘police brutality thriller’, alongside his ‘Hacksaw Ridge‘ colleague Vince Vaughn.
According to Variety, Gibson and Vaughn will ‘play cops who are suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics gets wide attention, then descend into the criminal underworld to exact vengeance’.
Yeesh… exact vengeance? On who? Because they were being violent? Huh? Why?
Possibly even scarier – the name of the movie is ‘Dragged Across Concrete‘.
‘Bone Tomehawk‘ director S. Craig Zahler is taking on the directorial role, and said:
“‘Dragged Across Concrete’ is best suited to my goal of making a heartfelt, surprising, sad, funny, shocking, and memorable world with multiple viewpoints. As is often the case in my novels and screenplays, the protagonists are in perilous circumstances against which they struggle in different and surprising—though logical—ways.I am absolutely thrilled to have Mel and Vince agree to play the lead roles.”
We’re dumbfounded, but we’ll reserve our acknowledgment of the icky feeling currently crawling up our bodies for when the film comes out.
Source: Variety.
Photo: Steve Granitz / Getty.
