After keeping a low profile since his drunken anti-Semitic remarks made on July 2006, Mel Gibson will star in a film version of the British TV show “Edge of Darkness”, according to a Daily Variety report on Tuesday.

Gibson, 52, will play a police investigator in the film based on the 1985 BBC miniseries.
The Hollywood actor last played in the 2002 movies "Signs" and "We Were Soldiers." Then he directed "The Passion of the Christ" in 2004 and "Apocalypto" in 2006.

The British mini series was an environmental thriller about a police investigator - Bob Peck - investigating the death of his activist daughter. The investigation leads Peck into a swamp of corruption, conspiracy and nuclear espionage involving British Military Intelligence MI5 and the CIA.

The story of the movie will be relocated to America and Gibson will play Peck. The production is scheduled to start in August in Boston under Graham King's GK Films banner.

In 2006, shortly before “Apocalypto” came out, Gibson was stopped and arrested on suspicion of DUI not far from his Malibu home. The actor was very angry. He yelled at the police officers and made anti-Semitic remarks. Gibson used expressions such as “sugar tits” (when speaking to the female police officer), “I own Malibu” and said that the Jews “are responsible for all the wars in the world."

He is also serving a three-year probation term.