3/18/2004 12:09:00 AM

Mel Gibson hits out at war in Iraq and Talks of another Movie

...Gibson said in the interview that he planned another religious film.

He wants to tell the story of a Jewish rebellion nearly 200 years before the birth of Christ, which led to the festival of Chanukah.

"The story that’s always fired my imagination … is the Book of Maccabees,” Gibson said in the radio interview.

"It’s about Antiochus, the king who set up his religion in the Temple, and forced them all to deny the true God and worship at his feet and worship false gods.

"The Maccabees family stood up, and they made war, they stuck by their guns, and they came out winning," he said.

"It’s like a Western."