UPDATED: WHAT'S THE STATUS OF THAT MEL GIBSON HOLOCAUST MINISERIES?

I'M GUESSING THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN CANCELED. I WONDER IF GIBSON'S HOLOCAUST DENYING FATHER WAS A CONSULTANT? WOULD HAVE MADE FOR A SHORT FILM: "HOLOCAUST? WHAT HOLOCAUST?"

Mel Gibson Plans TV Miniseries on Holocaust (NYT) December 6, 2005
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6 - Mel Gibson, whose "The Passion of the Christ" was assailed by critics as an anti-Semitic passion play - and whose father has been on record as a Holocaust denier - has a new project under way: a nonfiction miniseries about the Holocaust.

Mr. Gibson's television production company is developing a four-hour miniseries for ABC based on the self-published memoir of Flory A. Van Beek, a Dutch Jew whose gentile neighbors hid her from the Nazis but who lost several relatives in concentration camps.

It is not expected that Mr. Gibson will act in the miniseries, nor is it certain yet that his name, rather than his company's, will be publicly attached to the final product, according to several people involved in developing it. Nor is it guaranteed yet that the project will be completed and broadcast.

YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN.

UPDATE: Disney cancels Mel Gibson's Holocaust miniseries (JPost)