There was a time when the Judah Maccabee project (AKA the Jewish Braveheart) that Joe Eszterhas was penning for Mel Gibson seemed only modestly distasteful given Gibson's notorious penchant for making anti-Semitic remarks. Then Eszterhas turned in his script, Warner Bros. put the project on hold, and the real dramatic bloodbath began. Last night, Eszterhas penned a nine-page letter excoriating Gibson for ignoring his draft, accusing him of never intending to make the film in the first place and detailing a series of lurid, bigoted outbursts he and his family allegedly witnessed Gibson making during their collaboration -- a letter leaked to The Wrap and available in all of its bone-chilling glory, naturally.
In his letter Eszterhas claims to have witnessed numerous offenses during his time collaborating with Gibson, whom he insists never intended to actually make the Maccabee movie. Rather, the screenwriter claims, Gibson used the project as a means of doing damage control on his sullied public image, all the while still using anti-Semitic slurs and violent hate speech around Eszterhas and his family during visits and meetings.
Below, choice snippets from Eszterhas's memo (read the full letter here). First came Eszterhas's accusation of professional and personal misconduct ...
"I?ve come to the conclusion that you never had, or have, any intention of making a film about the Maccabees? I?ve come to the conclusion that you?ve used me. More exactly, you used my credentials."
And next, accusations of Gibson using unfortunate Jewish slurs...
Let me remind you of some of the things you said which appalled me. You continually called Jews ?Hebes? and ?oven-dodgers? and ?Jewboys.? It seemed that most times when we discussed someone you asked,
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