Here’s Ricky Gervais’ beautiful introduction of Mel Gibson at the Golden Globes:

It’s pushing 15 years since Mel Gibson made a good movie, but the guy’s always a good sport and his idea for a gritty, realistic viking movie from the writer of The Departed sounds pretty good.  Leonardo Dicaprio is attached, and of course Mel will shoot it in the original language, as soon as he figures out what that was.  From Collider:MelGibsonBeard

Gibson:  I think it’s going to be English – the English that would have been spoken back then – and Old Norse.  Whatever the 9th century had to offer.  I’m going to give you real.

Collider: Is that really important to you.

Gibson:  I want a Viking to scare you.  I don’t want a Viking to say, “I’m going to die with a sword in my hand.”  I don’t want to hear that.  It pulls the rug out from under you.  I want to see somebody who I have never seen before speaking low guttural German who scares the living sh-t out of me coming up to my house.  What is that like?  What would that have been like?

For Mel, I bet it’s kind of like when a guy shakes your hand and says, “Hi, I’m Avi Greenberg.”