Has anyone heard about Mel Gibson's upcoming new film, "Apocalypto"?? I was at the theatres last night, and saw a preview for it, and it looked incredible!! Iv'e looked all over the net, and haven't been able to find anything about it though. Have any of you come across any articles, or information about the film. I wrote to Mel a couple years ago suggesting that I think he should make an end times film, so naturally that's what I'm hoping it is. Regardless of that though, it looks really good, and I'd greatly appreciate some info about it if anyone has any. Thanks!!

http://imdb.com/title/tt0472043/

http://imdb.com/title/tt0472043/

Hey, thanks for that link Tim, I appreciate it!! When the preview started, it didn't much look like a Gibson type film, so I think this thing may be very interesting.

Here's the teaser trailer for it:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/apocalypto/large.html

i watched it.. but couldn' watch it w/ sound... i'll have to watch it w/ sound later...

i'm just confused, what exactly is it about?? maybe you could put it in dummy talk for me?

is Mel finished with acting? I haven't heard anything about him doing any acting roles since Passion and that was two years ago. The fact he has another movie coming out that he directed makes me wonder if he's gone the Ron Howard route.

I think that he should follow up The Passion with a film about The Resurrection, because IMO, the Resurrection is really the most important thing about the crucifixion, any person could've been crucified and tortured, only Jesus could actually be resurrected.

is Mel finished with acting? I haven't heard anything about him doing any acting roles since Passion and that was two years ago. The fact he has another movie coming out that he directed makes me wonder if he's gone the Ron Howard route.

I think that he should follow up The Passion with a film about The Resurrection, because IMO, the Resurrection is really the most important thing about the crucifixion, any person could've been crucified and tortured, only Jesus could actually be resurrected.

Mel said in an interview on Primetime Live with Diane Sawyer in 2004, that he was done with acting. He said he liked directing because you can be a slob, and just boss people around and stuff. I heard he even had the chance to do another Mad Max movie, but he turned that down as well. I hope he changes his mind though. He's one of my all time favorite actors, so hopefully he'll atleast make a few more films. I know he had a funny cameo in Paparrazzi where he was sitting outside the psychiatry office with a ton of paperwork, as if he was a total schitzo or something. That was hilarious!! :lol:

I wished in The Passion that he would have put more in their about the Resurrection. I just don't know how he'd be able to do a whole movie about it. I know that according to the Bible he showed up several times to the Apostles over the course of 40 days, but the Bible doesn't really go that deep into what was said and done in that time. I just don't know how he'd be able to pull off a full movie based on the little that's in the Bible in regards to his resurrection.

actually, I just checked IMDB, Mel has committed to acting roles in two upcoming movies, neither of which are Mad Max or Lethal Weapon related though.

actually, I just checked IMDB, Mel has committed to acting roles in two upcoming movies, neither of which are Mad Max or Lethal Weapon related though.

Well, it's good to hear that he changed his mind from what he felt a couple years ago. He's way too good of an actor, to quit at such a young age. Actors usually get better with age anyway, so hopefully he'll be around for a long time.

i'm just confused, what exactly is it about?? maybe you could put it in dummy talk for me?

"APOCALYPTO": Gibson's next film and the Mayan year 2012

by
Hector Carreon

Los Angeles, Alta California - August 22, 2005 - (ACN) After producing and directing the most successful independent film of all time, "The Passion of the Christ", Mel Gibson is today preparing to film, in Mexico, what promises to be yet another blockbuster titled "Apocalypto". Though the script of the film is being kept "top secret", there is no question what the film will be about. The title "Apocalypto" which in Greek means "an unveiling and a new beginning" and the fact that the film will revolve around the ancient, highly evolved and mysterious Mayan civilization, gives away the theme and content of the film. "Apocalypto" will be filmed entirely in the Mayan language and the cast will consist of local indigenous Mayan actors.

Mel Gibson filming "Apocalypto" in Mexico. The actor/director has great esteem for Mexico.
La Voz de Aztlan's article, "The next Pope may be the last", we believe outlines closely what the contents of "Apocalypto" will be. Published on April 4, 2005, the article describes the highly accurate Mayan Calendar and the Mayan Popol Vuh's (Mayan Bible) concept of the "Fin de los Tiempos" (End of Time). The Mayas were a much advanced people. They were superb mathematicians and astronomers who devised one of the most accurate calendars known to man, far more accurate than the modern Gregorian calendar. The Mayan Calendar was devised through extremely accurate observations of the sun, the planets, the stars and the Milky Way galaxy. Mayan astronomers knew, through yet unknown methods, the exact location of the center of the Milky Way and attached great meaning to the birth and death of stars at this center.

The Mayas, in addition, possessed the required knowledge concerning the "Precession of the Equinoxes" that is necessary to create an accurate calendar. There is no question that the Mayas viewed time differently than Western man. Their magnificent pyramids were perfectly aligned to the sun and the one at Chichenitza was constructed in such a way that during the equinoxes, the setting sun casts a shadow of a serpent (Kukulcan/Quetzalcoatl/Jesus Christ) descending on the northern steps of the pyramid. This effect could only be obtained by extremely precise architectural and astronomical measurements.

The Maya's astronomical knowledge was inherited from even an older and more mysterious civilization at Teotihuacan near Mexico City which contains the famous Pyramid of the Sun and of the Moon. The Pyramid of the Sun is perfectly aligned with the star cluster called the Pleiades which the Egyptians also took into account in building their pyramids at Giza. There is a connection between the ancient religious beliefs of the Sumerians, the Egyptians and the Mayas, especially as they relate to the creation of the universe, of the human race and of the future.

The Mayas approached "prophecy" by deeply studying the periodicity of cycles, especially astronomical ones, and their connection (synchronicity) to human events. They were also deeply spiritual and very aware of the role that human consciousness plays in connecting to and obtaining information from nature. They knew that ingesting certain plants, religiously and with reverence, would open the doors of perception and lift the veil that keeps mankind from seeing certain realities and communicating with God. This knowledge must explain how they were able to ascertain what will happen on October 21, 2012. Incredibly, they knew, over a thousand years ago, that on this date there will be an astronomical alignment of our sun and the center of the Milky Way. This impending alignment of the sun at that very point, according to Mayan calculations, culminates at the winter solstice of December 21, 2012. Also, on this date, the tail of the "shadow" serpent descending the northern steps of the pyramid at Chichenitza will be pointing exactly towards the Pleiades star cluster which will be located straight up and over the structure (See pyramid below).

HUNAB KU - Mayan glyph representing a "black hole" at center of our galaxy
Today, modern astronomers, with advanced technological instruments, know that the center of the Milky Way galaxy contains an immense "black hole" which is constantly giving birth and swallowing stars. The Mayas had a glyph that represented a "black hole" in the center of our galaxy. How they were able to know this, no one knows. The Mayas tied their philosophy entirely on what they observed in the heavens. They thought that the center of our galaxy was a "Cosmic Mother Womb" and that it gave birth to our world. They believed that our world went through cycles of birth, death and rebirth. October 21, 2012, they said will end the cycle and our world will end by fire but will be reborn in a new, different and more evolved form. This will be the beginning of a new sun or the "Sixth Sun" according to the Mexicas (Aztecs).

Mel Gibson's title "Apocalypto", which in Greek means "an unveiling and a new beginning" , certainly fits with the Mayan definition of the "Fin de los Tiempos" as described above and which will occur on Friday, December 21, 2012. Filming of "Apocalypto" in Mexico is scheduled to commence in October for a planned release of Summer 2006.

Well, it's good to hear that he changed his mind from what he felt a couple years ago. He's way too good of an actor, to quit at such a young age. Actors usually get better with age anyway, so hopefully he'll be around for a long time.

well, in Hollywood, "retirement" means two years, lol. Jamie Lee Curtis has "retired" from acting like three times (she just "retired" again), watch her return to the cinemas in 2007 or 2008. Remember when Celine Dion was going away, and then she's released three or four albums since?

well, in Hollywood, "retirement" means two years, lol. Jamie Lee Curtis has "retired" from acting like three times (she just "retired" again), watch her return to the cinemas in 2007 or 2008. Remember when Celine Dion was going away, and then she's released three or four albums since?

That's a good point. Not to mention the queen of apparent retirements, Jane Fonda. She probably should have stayed retired rather then take such a ****ty role as she did. I wish these actors would quit saying they're retiring all the time, and just call it what it is, a leave of absence.

good point, at least Jane Fonda's retirement did last 15 years, which is a hell of a lot longer than most celebrity retirements are, Jamie Lee Curtis has had three in the past decade :lol:

I think that he should follow up The Passion with a film about The Resurrection, because IMO, the Resurrection is really the most important thing about the crucifixion, any person could've been crucified and tortured, only Jesus could actually be resurrected.
i agree

"APOCALYPTO": Gibson's next film and the Mayan year 2012

by
Hector Carreon

Los Angeles, Alta California - August 22, 2005 - (ACN) After producing and directing the most successful independent film of all time, "The Passion of the Christ", Mel Gibson is today preparing to film, in Mexico, what promises to be yet another blockbuster titled "Apocalypto". Though the script of the film is being kept "top secret", there is no question what the film will be about. The title "Apocalypto" which in Greek means "an unveiling and a new beginning" and the fact that the film will revolve around the ancient, highly evolved and mysterious Mayan civilization, gives away the theme and content of the film. "Apocalypto" will be filmed entirely in the Mayan language and the cast will consist of local indigenous Mayan actors.

Mel Gibson filming "Apocalypto" in Mexico. The actor/director has great esteem for Mexico.
La Voz de Aztlan's article, "The next Pope may be the last", we believe outlines closely what the contents of "Apocalypto" will be. Published on April 4, 2005, the article describes the highly accurate Mayan Calendar and the Mayan Popol Vuh's (Mayan Bible) concept of the "Fin de los Tiempos" (End of Time). The Mayas were a much advanced people. They were superb mathematicians and astronomers who devised one of the most accurate calendars known to man, far more accurate than the modern Gregorian calendar. The Mayan Calendar was devised through extremely accurate observations of the sun, the planets, the stars and the Milky Way galaxy. Mayan astronomers knew, through yet unknown methods, the exact location of the center of the Milky Way and attached great meaning to the birth and death of stars at this center.

The Mayas, in addition, possessed the required knowledge concerning the "Precession of the Equinoxes" that is necessary to create an accurate calendar. There is no question that the Mayas viewed time differently than Western man. Their magnificent pyramids were perfectly aligned to the sun and the one at Chichenitza was constructed in such a way that during the equinoxes, the setting sun casts a shadow of a serpent (Kukulcan/Quetzalcoatl/Jesus Christ) descending on the northern steps of the pyramid. This effect could only be obtained by extremely precise architectural and astronomical measurements.

The Maya's astronomical knowledge was inherited from even an older and more mysterious civilization at Teotihuacan near Mexico City which contains the famous Pyramid of the Sun and of the Moon. The Pyramid of the Sun is perfectly aligned with the star cluster called the Pleiades which the Egyptians also took into account in building their pyramids at Giza. There is a connection between the ancient religious beliefs of the Sumerians, the Egyptians and the Mayas, especially as they relate to the creation of the universe, of the human race and of the future.

The Mayas approached "prophecy" by deeply studying the periodicity of cycles, especially astronomical ones, and their connection (synchronicity) to human events. They were also deeply spiritual and very aware of the role that human consciousness plays in connecting to and obtaining information from nature. They knew that ingesting certain plants, religiously and with reverence, would open the doors of perception and lift the veil that keeps mankind from seeing certain realities and communicating with God. This knowledge must explain how they were able to ascertain what will happen on October 21, 2012. Incredibly, they knew, over a thousand years ago, that on this date there will be an astronomical alignment of our sun and the center of the Milky Way. This impending alignment of the sun at that very point, according to Mayan calculations, culminates at the winter solstice of December 21, 2012. Also, on this date, the tail of the "shadow" serpent descending the northern steps of the pyramid at Chichenitza will be pointing exactly towards the Pleiades star cluster which will be located straight up and over the structure (See pyramid below).

HUNAB KU - Mayan glyph representing a "black hole" at center of our galaxy
Today, modern astronomers, with advanced technological instruments, know that the center of the Milky Way galaxy contains an immense "black hole" which is constantly giving birth and swallowing stars. The Mayas had a glyph that represented a "black hole" in the center of our galaxy. How they were able to know this, no one knows. The Mayas tied their philosophy entirely on what they observed in the heavens. They thought that the center of our galaxy was a "Cosmic Mother Womb" and that it gave birth to our world. They believed that our world went through cycles of birth, death and rebirth. October 21, 2012, they said will end the cycle and our world will end by fire but will be reborn in a new, different and more evolved form. This will be the beginning of a new sun or the "Sixth Sun" according to the Mexicas (Aztecs).

Mel Gibson's title "Apocalypto", which in Greek means "an unveiling and a new beginning" , certainly fits with the Mayan definition of the "Fin de los Tiempos" as described above and which will occur on Friday, December 21, 2012. Filming of "Apocalypto" in Mexico is scheduled to commence in October for a planned release of Summer 2006.
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