MUMBAI: Mel Gibson, who was acclaimed for his 2004 film The Passion of the Christ, is set to produce a biblical drama about Jewish hero Judas Maccabeus.
 
The 55-year old actor producer Gibson is working with screenwriter Joe Eszterhas to tell the story of the celebrated Jewish warrior, who defeated the Greek-Syrian armies in the second century BC and inspired the Hanukkah celebration, it is gathered.
 
It is said that Gibson wanted to do a film on Maccabee for more than a decade. The Jewish warrior, considered to be one of the great warriors in Jewish history, led a popular revolt against he Seleucid king Antiochus IV, seizing Jerusalem and reconsecrating the Temple, an event remembered by the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.