Benedict Fitzgerald, a screenwriter who worked on Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, is suing the actor/director claiming Gibson screwed him out of fair compensation after the film was a hit."Gibson preyed monetarily on Ben, taking advantage of his unbridled enthusiasm for the project and with full cognizance of Ben's fundamental personal and spiritual beliefs," the lawsuit says.
Fitzgerald claims Gibson told him the movie was being made on a shoestring budget, and that neither one of them would make any money out of it. The film went on to gross over $600 million worldwide, yet Fitzgerald was only paid $75,000, and at one point had to borrow $200,000 from Gibson to cover his expenses.
This shocks me. Really. All this time, I thought Mel Gibson was a good Christian man. I mean, he made The Passion of the Christ, for God's sake - the most pious film in the history of the world. How could he rip off a fellow Christian? Christians just don't do things like that.
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