Mel Gibson and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas are in a biblical feud, said the New York Daily News. Since Warner Bros. rejected Eszterhas’s script for Gibson’s pet project, The Maccabees, about the 2nd century B.C. Jewish splinter group, the writer has been leaking material that is embarrassing to his former collaborator. In the latest, a voice alleged to be Gibson’s engages in an abusive, profanity-laced tirade directed at Eszterhas and presumably Gibson’s ex, Oksana Grigorieva. Eszterhas also released a damning nine-page letter in which he accuses Gibson of making the movie “to deflect continuing charges of anti-Semitism” and in order “to convert Jews to Christianity.” In a statement, Gibson said Eszterhas’s letter was full of “utter fabrications.”
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