Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster - Mmm, Nice Beaver.

Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster are getting back together 15 years after Maverick for the $18 million comedy The Beaver reports Variety.

Gibson will play a depressed man who finds solace in wearing a beaver hand-puppet. Kind of like Lars and the Real Girl. Steve Carell and Jim Carrey had both been interested in the role.

Foster will both direct the film and play the role of the man's wife. The actress brought the project to Gibson herself.

Kyle Killen penned the script which made last year's coveted Blacklist. Steve Golin and Keith Redmon will produce.

Shooting begins this September in New York City.

Gibson's going back to acting after directing, drinking and saying dodgy things. Foster is going back to directing after a bit of acting and sauciness in A Very Long Engagement.

Should be quite interesting to see how Gibson is received after his divorce and poor choice of words.

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The Random - Cartagena, Sixty Six, The Last Voyage of Demeter, The Lone Ranger, The Beaver, Cold Skin

- Keanu Reeves is in talks to star in undercover drama Cartagena for 2929 Productions says Production Weekly. The film centers on an undercover agent in Colombia who gets caught in a complex plot and must elude drug dealers and international agents if he hopes to survive.

- Barry Levinson ("Wag the Dog," "Liberty Heights") will adapt and direct an independently-financed film version of his own coming of age novel Sixty Six says The Hollywood Reporter. Set in 1966 Baltimore on the eve of significant historical events such as the counterculture movement and the war in Vietnam, 'Six' follows a staffer at a local television station and also features a diner as the center of social activity.

- Director Marcus Nispel ("Friday the 13th") is in talks to helm The Last Voyage of Demeter for Phoenix Pictures says Variety. Based on a chapter in Bram Stoker's Dracula, the story describes the arrival of the vampire count in England on a cargo ship that has crashed into the rocks at Whitby with no crew and the dead captain lashed to the steering wheel. Stoker tells the story via the captain's log of the voyage, which begins in Bulgaria and becomes increasingly disjointed as members of the crew disappear.

- Mike Newell ("Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire") is in talks to direct The Lone Ranger for Disney Pictures and Bruckheimer Films reports Production Weekly.

- Jim Carrey is the leading candidate to star in the offbeat dramedy The Beaver for Anonymous Content says Risky Biz Blog. Kyle Killen's Black List-lauded script centers on the relationship between a man and a beaver puppet he wears on his arm, which he talks to and treats as a companion

- David Slade ("30 Days of Night," "Hard Candy") is attached to direct the horror/psychological thriller Cold Skin for Kanzaman says Variety. Based on Albert Sanchez Pinol’s bestselling Spanish novel of the same title, the story follows a European hired to spend a year logging wind conditions on a tiny Antarctic island. The bookish young man soon discovers that he has a brutish neighbor named Gruner and the pair soon team to slaughter the humanoid killer amphibians that overrun the island each night. Gruner keeps a humanoid female looking one as a pet and after fornicating with it repeatedly, the young man tries to befriend the creatures. Things soon turn into a dark orgy of murder and beastiality that when his replacement arrives, the young man has become as feral as Gruner was before him.

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The Random - Tim Burton, Thor, The Unborn, Noah's Ark, The Beaver, Near Dark, The Crow, Terminator 5, The Phantom Legacy

Actor Alan Rickman spoke briefly about Tim Burton's upcoming Alice in Wonderland and its revolutionary mixture of stop motion, live action and animated footage... (full details)

"No. It doesn't interest me at all" says Daniel Craig about rumors of him playing Thor in the Kenneth Branagh-directed Marvel comic adaptation... (full details)

Odette Yustman says that filmmaker David Goyer was talking about doing a prequel to the upcoming horror The Unborn which would further develop her character's relationship with her mother (Carla Gugino)... (full details)

The success of Twilight has lead to Platinum Dunes essentially ditching their plans to remake of Kathryn Bigelow’s 1987 vampire western classic Near Dark reports Empire.

The Wrestler filmmaker Darren Aronofsky says that he has a major film star attached to his planned Noah's Ark project but won't reveal the name. They have a script and a graphic novel version of it is in the works right now..." (full details)

Kyle Killen's The Beaver, about a despondent man who finds comfort in a beaver hand puppet, has topped the 2008 Black List - an unofficial compendium of the "most liked" screenplays of the past year... (full details)

Platinum Dunes is going forward with an as-yet-untitled supernatural thriller about satanic cults by scribe Scott Kosar ("Texas Chainsaw Massacre"). Fuller tells Sci-Fi Wire that the story follows a college girl investigating her brother's death and finds a satanic cult is responsible. She soon infiltrates it, "gets involved and gets in way over her head."

Stephen Norrington (Blade, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Death Machine) has signed on to both write and direct the "reinvention" of The Crow. "Whereas Proyas' original was gloriously gothic and stylized, the new movie will be realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style," Norrington said.

The Halcyon Company, who currently owns the franchise rights to Terminator, has already greenlit the fifth film in the Terminator series, following the currently in-production Terminator Salvation.

Bruce Sherlock, a producer of The Phantom (starring the legendary Billy Zane), is set to bring the character back to the big screen for a sequel, and film it entirely in Australia. The Phantom Legacy is the new film and it doesn't sound like it's a sequel, perhaps more a remake. "[It will focus on] the Father/Son relationship, and what it means to be The Phantom...The film will be set in the present day and will deal with the concept of destiny."

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