Boudicca ; Mythic Warrior Queen or Feminist Role Model for Our Times? as Mel Gibson Turns His Attentions to a New Leading Lady, D J Taylor Tells the Story of an English Icon

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With the multi-million dollar profits from The Passion of The Christ stashed in the vault, and Hollywood avid to bankroll anything to which he sets his signature, to which fresh project is that distinguished actor-director Mel Gibson now turning his gaze? Another biopic, naturally, full of blood, guts and the epic sweep of history, but of whom? Nelson? Washington? Genghis Khan? In fact, our man has just signed up to frame in celluloid the career of an East Anglian warrior queen, dead these 1,950 years, of whom all that can accurately be said could probably be recorded on a couple of sheets of A4.

The life and times of Boudicca (or Boadicea, or Boudica or even Bonduca, …