Mel Gibson Is 'The Captain'
Posted Thursday, July 26, 2001 at 12:11 PM Central
by John Couture
Mel Gibson is in final negotiations to star in The Captain And The Shark, a retelling of the events that led to the sinking of the USS Indianapolis at the end of World War II.
Gibson would play Captain Charles McVay, skipper of the USS Indianapolis, who came underfire (many say unfairly) when his ship was struck by a torpedo and sank. In the ensuing chaos, 883 members of the ship's crew would be lost to drowning, dehydration and, most brutally, to shark attacks.