Last year’s unofficial “Blacklist” most popular undirected screen play caught the attention of director Jodie Foster and actor Mel Gibson. It’s about a depressed, aging toy manufacturer whose world is changed by an abandoned beaver puppet he finds in a trash can. He becomes attached to the beaver, forms a relationship with it and adopts some of its characteristics.
Filming began this week, and the usual punning circuit has been making the rounds about the released photos and what his “hand is up”. Foster is a smart woman, but there’s no telling if the final product will be worth seeing. Gibson is certainly not without controversy (notoriety?) Still, a beaver changing the life of a grownup, teaching them about the world, allowing them to become more authentically themselves and more involved with their community was too much to pass up.
Just saying.
