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A Question of Faith

NCE UPON A TIME, MEL GIBSON WAS BOX-OFFICE gold as the face of the franchise and as star and director of Best-Picture Oscar winning . In 2004 he reset the record books with his intense and bloody depiction of Jesus’ crucifixion, which became the most successful R-rated movie of all time. But after several PR nightmares, starting with a 2006 DUI arrest accompanied by a rant about Jews, Gibson became persona non grata in Hollywood. Since then, he has been in rebuilding mode. He’s appeared in a few forgettable films, but his most recent effort as a director, the 2016 war drama , won mostly favorable reviews and respectable box office numbers. Now he’s embarking on a big gamble, a sequel to currently in pre-production and tentatively titled

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