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GIBSON SUED; APPARENTLY THERE IS ANOTHER MAYAN FILM

By Film Threat Staff | January 4, 2007

Mexican director Juan Catlett is suing Mel Gibson, alleging that Gibson’s “Apocalypto” stole ideas and scenes from Catlett’s 1991 “Return to Aztlan” film about the end of the Mayan civilization.

Hmmmmm… if you’re going to rip off a film, Mel, rip one off with a more varied plot. Having the two end-of-Mayan-civilization films looking and sounding like each other is too obvious…

Read the full story at Variety>>>

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