Mel Gibson to produce epic on Jewish hero

Mel Gibson will produce a movie that triumphs the Jewish struggle against tyranny - a movie about the greatest Jewish hero of all time, his publicist Alan Nierob has confirmed.

According to TMZ.com, Nierob said that Gibson is teaming up with screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, who wrote the Jewish-themed movies Betrayed and Music Box, reports the Daily Telegraph.

The movie will be about Judah Maccabee, the Jewish warrior who defeated the Greek-Syrian armies in the second century BC.

Gibson, who famously directed the arguably anti-Jewish Passion of the Christ in 2004, has also signed on with Warner Bros.

Nierob reveals Gibson has been working on the Maccabee project for a decade, but now it’s about to become real.