Here’s a very, very interesting pairing — and concept: Mel Gibson and Joe Eszterhas are teaming on a Warner Bros. project to bring the biblical story of second century Jewish rebel Judah Maccabee and the tale of Hanukkah to the big screen.

Deadline reports that Gibson’s Icon Productions will produce the project, and Eszterhas will write the screenplay, with input from Gibson, who has long been fascinated with Maccabee (who was called Judah the Hammer) — so much so that he had considered this as a follow-up project to ‘The Passion of the Christ’ in 2004. Continue reading →