Edge of Darkness News

Robert De Niro, who was previously set to co-star alongside Mel Gibson in the Martin Campbell-directed Edge of Darkness has left the project according to Variety.

De Niro was signed on to play an operative sent in tto clean up the evidence in the murder of a detective's daughter.  The detective is played by Mel Gibson.

Filming began on the movie in Massachusetts on August 18 and De Niro just arrived on set this week.  According to De Niro's spokesman, "Sometimes things don't work out; it's called creative differences."

Though the movie still stars crazy Gibson alongside Danny Huston, Shawn Roberts, and Bojana Novakovic, we think the movie just got a lot less interesting.  Filming will continue as they find a replacement by filming all the scenes that don't involve De Niro.

Don't worry De Niro fans, you can still see him on the big screen next week in Rightoeus Kill, which he co-stars with Al Pacino in.

Robert De Niro is set join Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness, the Martin Campbell-directed thrilled.

According to Variety, Gibson will portray as Thomas Craven, a straitlaced homicide detective for the Boston Police Deptartment and single father. His 24-year old daughter is murdered on the steps of his home.

Craven assumes he was the target, but his investigation leads in another direction, as he 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.

No, the headline above does not refer to the place Mel Gibson has been on since his arrest for drink driving and subsequent rants against Jewish people. But that would be an understandable mistake to make.

Instead, the controversial actor will star in Edge of Darkness, his first leading feature role since 2002. The project is a movie adaptation of the six-hour 1985 BBC miniseries about a straitlaced police investigator (Gibson) who investigates his daughter's murder and uncovers systemic corruption that led to her death.

The film will be directed by Martin Campbell (Casino Royale), who also directed the miniseries. William Monahan wrote the script, and Graham King is producing through GK Films. Monahan and King previously worked together for The Departed.