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19-12-00 news
Gibson hires Boorman...

The Irish based director John Boorman (The General and The Tailor of Panama) has been hired by Mel Gibson to bring journalist Simon Winchester's best-seller The Professor and the Madman to the screen. Boorman is working on an rewrite of the script, which centres on the compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Gibson, whose production company has bought the film rights, has yet to decide whether he will also star in the story. It depicts the friendship between Professor James Murray and William Chester Minor, a murderer who helped Murray write the dictionary while an inmate at the Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane.

Boorman has just finished filming The Tailor of Panama in Ireland with 007 star Pierce Brosnan and Oscar winner Geoffery Rush.

The director lives in a remote house in County Wicklow in Ireland near the homes of Daniel Day Lewis and singer Chris De Burgh.