After The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson is sticking with controversy. He’s producing a TV movie set against the backdrop of the Holocaust.
Flory is based on the real-life tale of Dutch Jew Flory Van Beek and the non-Jewish boyfriend who helped to hide her from the Nazis.
ABC network spokesman Quinn Taylor tried to head critics off at the pass. "I would tell them to shut up and wait to see the movie, and then judge," Taylor told Variety. "I'm not about to rewrite history. I'm going to explore an amazing love story that we can all learn from and, hopefully, be inspired by.”
Gibbo’s Passion Of The Christ was accused by some of anti-Semitism, so any subject that even touches on the historical tragedy of the Holocaust is going to cause debate. But if you want to make your own mind up, you’ll have to wait. Flory doesn’t even have a full greenlight – and wouldn’t hit the screen until late 2006 or 2007 at the earliest. And that’s in America, where they definitely never complain about anything on TV. Oopsie…