Variety is reporting the reunion of Maverick co-stars Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster may be getting a home with Summit Entertainment in advanced talks to acquire world rights to The Beaver with Mel Gibson co-starring with Jodie Foster who will take on directing duties.
The film is described as a dark comedy, written by Kyle Killen, centering on a depressed man who finds solace in wearing a beaver hand-puppet. In addition to helming, Foster will play the role of the man’s wife.
Foster last directed Home for the Holidays in 1995, a romantic dramedy starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr. among several others, The Beaver would be her first time in the director’s chair since.
Mel Gibson is getting back on track after starring in Martin Campbell’s Edge of Darkness for Warner Bros. which will hit theaters on January 29, 2010. That film finds Gibson playing a straitlaced police investigator whose activist daughter is killed. He plunges into the case and uncovers systemic corruption that led to his daughter’s death. William Monahan (The Departed) wrote the screenplay.
As for The Beaver, it is currently in rehearsals, with shooting slated for late September in New York.
