Mel Gibson

It's been rumored for some time now, but it's now official: the great(ly troubled) Mel Gibson has joined the cast of 'The Expendables 3,' where he'll play the main bad guy. He's also being joined by Antonio Banderas, another fading star who has been rumored to join the film for quite some time.

Sylvester Stallone has been busy recruiting a new team of actors for 'The Expendables 3,' all the while keeping fans updated on the latest happenings via Twitter. Now that the film has a director, Patrick Hughes ('Red Hill'), and a handful of new and returning stars have been confirmed to team up, what about this rumor that Mel Gibson will be playing the villain? Well, it seems he's on board too!

With 'The Expendables 3' already casting every washed-up actor in the history of ever, it should come as no surprise that Sylvester Stallone is apparently courting Mel Gibson. It's a development that Stallone has teased before, but now the Oscar-winning actor and director is rumored to have signed on to the project in a crucial role.

About a month ago, Sylvester Stallone started working on the script for 'Expendables 3' which he said needed "new blood and new humor." How about this for new blood? Stallone is floating the name of an Oscar-winning director for 'Expendables 3'...Mr. Mel Gibson.

BREAKING NEWS: We know why that creepy masked Burger King freaks us out so much.  That almost terrifying way his face is frozen with the same smile as Christian Bale's 'American Psycho' persona, the way he'll just randomly appear in bed next you, the way he's persistent in his efforts for you to eat his hamburgers... Yup, all that just screams Mel Gibson.

Mel Gibson is an actor/director who isn't known for his subtlety. His rants and raves with whatever -- and whomever -- are already known. He's still a fine actor though, and that's why some fans don't care about his views. One person who isn't a fan? 'Showgirls' scribe Joe Eszterhas, who decided to write a 30,000-word ebook about his arguments with Mad Max.

Mel Gibson appeared on the Tonight Show to talk about his new film 'Get the Gringo' with Jay Leno. What followed was a mixture of your standard movie star promotional chatter and something deeply, horribly uncomfortable.

It's been a rough year for Mel Gibson. His latest film 'Get the Gringo' is going straight to Video on Demand, and then there's all that hassle with the film he was going to make with Joe Eszterhas. Well, finally he's got some good news, as he's going to be in Robert Rodriguez's 'Machete Kills.'

Mel Gibson’s attempts at resurrecting his career after a few highly-publicized meltdowns have been rocky, at best. Jodie Foster’s ‘The Beaver’ bombed. Recently, Warner Bros. passed on a screenplay Gibson acquired from ‘Basic Instinct’ writer Joe Eszterhas. But a celebrated cult director would like to lend Gibson a helping hand by casting him in a potential sequel.

Often when filmmakers go through a rough patch in their career they return to material that's worked for them before. So it's no surprise that Mel Gibson - after a couple of years drenched in tabloid attention - would return to the Biblical stories. But Warner Brothers has rejected the script that Gibson commissioned from Hollywood legend Joe Eszterhas.