Mel Gibson has opened up about his new Viking movie project.
The Oscar winner plans to recreate the Viking invasion of England and the script is being penned by The Departed writer William Monahan.
And it wouldn't be a Mel Gibson movie unless it was authentic and the actor turned director intends to use an old Norse language, following in the footsteps of Apocalypto and The Passion of the Christ.
In an interview with the Daily Mail the actor said: I think it's going to be [in] English - the English that would have been spoken back then - and Old Norse.
"Whatever the ninth century had to offer. I'm going to give you real."
"The very first idea I ever had about making a film was when I was 16 years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie.
"And I wanted to make it in Old Norse, which I was studying at the time. That was the first big, epic, wacky idea I ever had.
"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 want to see somebody who I have never seen before speaking low, guttural German who scares the living - out of me coming up to my house."
But Gibson is back in front of the camera next week with his new movie The Edge of Darkness, his first movie role since The Singing Detective back in 2003.
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