WI: Mel Gibson Avoids Meltdown

I searched to see if someone made a thread on this and I cannot find it.

What if Mel Gibson medicated sooner, found Jesus, lost Jesus, are simply upped his phony level to over 9,000--avoiding his post-Passion of the Christ meltdown which included:

-A drunk driving incident where he claimed the "Jews start all the wars"
-Leaving the mother of his children for floozies
-Making racial slurs when cursing at the top of his lungs at one of those floozies
-Etcetera

The thread presumes that Mel Gibson's career up to and including Apocalypto is intact. So, Passion is still made. However, being that his career-suicide in 2006 is avoided, the rest of his career is up in the air. (Sadly for me, this probably butterflies away Blood Father, a movie I really like.)

What happens next in his career?
 
I searched to see if someone made a thread on this and I cannot find it.

What if Mel Gibson medicated sooner, found Jesus, lost Jesus, are simply upped his phony level to over 9,000--avoiding his post-Passion of the Christ meltdown which included:

-A drunk driving incident where he claimed the "Jews start all the wars"
-Leaving the mother of his children for floozies
-Making racial slurs when cursing at the top of his lungs at one of those floozies
-Etcetera

The thread presumes that Mel Gibson's career up to and including Apocalypto is intact. So, Passion is still made. However, being that his career-suicide in 2006 is avoided, the rest of his career is up in the air. (Sadly for me, this probably butterflies away Blood Father, a movie I really like.)

What happens next in his career?

Impossible to say exactly but I vividly rem-
ember reading IOTL that before his break-
down Mel was actually one of the most
LIKED people in Hollywood(!) (Despite him
sending her a dead rat, Julia Roberts called
him "my good friend") With people feeling
that way about him, his record of appearing
in such hits as THE MAD MAX movies, & his
rugged, leading-man style looks, it could
well have been the sky was the limit for
Mr. Gibson....
 
I think Gibson might overdo the "everyone speaks another rare language in an epic" trope. I can see an epic about Ghengis Khan (a topic strangely missing in western cinema), perhaps a trilogy. Ironically, Russian film would be making a similar film at the same time.

He would also may find himself in more sequels and what not in the 2000s (more Lethal Weapons). I think there is also a big block buster or romantic comedy in there we cannot anticipate, due to the butterflies.

The question is whether ATL with a Ghengis Khan film is better than Blood Father...
 
Well he probably manages to make some more movies with a hand wave at history (ie the dates are mostly correct) so long as the English are portrayed as complete shits.
 
Why does Mel Gibson portray the English the way that he does. The church burning with the civilians inside was very controversial and did not happen.
 
Why does Mel Gibson portray the English the way that he does. The church burning with the civilians inside was very controversial and did not happen.

The portrayal of the English in The Patriot and Braveheart ruined both movies for me... King Richard suddenly becoming "heathen" and the Scotts loosing all evidence of "heathen" roots was odd too.

These themes in his movies always struck me as off: perhaps indicative of some from of an agenda. Makes me wonder if these were just early signs of the troubles listed in the OP - signs of paranoia/instability.

As far as the premise of this thread: I suspect we'd see a continuation of relatively well-done movies with an occasional over-use of artistic license when it comes to historical facts. Perhaps (with, or without mediation and counseling) he'd mellow in his older years and return to the Mel that his career was built on. It's quite sad that he descended the way he did. I don't agree with his behaviors/opinions (and I suspect they are a symptom of some mental illness) but it's quite sad to see someone fall apart like that when they had such a promising early career.
 
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