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Apr 29, 2008 1:02 pm US/Eastern

Report: Mel Gibson To Return To Acting In Boston

BOSTON (WBZ) ― Mel Gibson is returning to acting for the first time in six years and the movie will begin production in Boston this summer, according to a published report. 

Variety is reporting Gibson has committed to star in the thriller "Edge of Darkness," where he will play a straight-laced police investigator whose activist daughter is killed. The character uncovers systemic corruption that led to his daughter's death.

The city's Film Bureau would not confirm the report, which claims production will start in August. 

According to Variety, William Monahan wrote the script, which is an adaptation of the 1985 BBC miniseries. Monahan won an Oscar in 2007 for Best Adapted Screenplay for "The Departed."

The movie would be Gibson's first starring role since "Signs" and "We Were Soldiers" in 2002. He directed "The Passion of the Christ" in 2004 and "Apocalypto" in 2006.

He was arrested on a Malibu highway in July 2006 after a sheriff's deputy caught him speeding. Gibson's anti-Semitic remarks to the deputy sparked outrage, and he later apologized.

Gibson pleaded no contest to charges of drunken driving under a deal that included serving three years' probation, a fine and alcohol-rehabilitation classes.

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