(Washington Post) In (a) nine-page letter, Joe Eszterhas comes to the conclusion that Gibson won’t make the (Maccabee) movie because he “hates Jews.” He accused the actor of uttering anti-Semitic slurs and being a Holocaust denier.
Gibson’s response: “In 25 years of script development I have never seen a more substandard first draft or a more significant waste of time. The decision not to proceed with you was based on the quality of your script, not on any other factor,”