SMAC - SHOWS, MOVIES & CHICKS

Variety reports, that ROBERT DE NIRO "almost" signed to play with MEL GIBSON in movie called EDGE OF DARKNESS. The flick is directed by MARTIN CAMPBELL (GOLDEN EYE, CASINO ROYALE) and penned by WILLIAM MONAHAN (KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BODY OF LIES).
It's the story about a Cop (GIBSON) who's daughter is killend on his own doorstep. The cop assumes he was the target, but his investigation leads in another direction and uncovers his daughter's secret life, a corporate cover-up and government collusion. DE NIRO will play an operative sent to clean up the evidence.

The movie is based one a BBC mini-series that CAMPBELL directed in 1985 and that goes under the same name.