And so the next Mel Gibson debacle begins...

The Washington Post is already stoking the fires of controversy over Mel Gibson's next project, which hasn't even started filming yet.

Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles said the project would give "Gibson a chance to redeem himself from the controversy over 'The Passion of the Christ,' which did not portray Jews fairly."

Hier said the project would also "provide a first-class education for his father, who is a Holocaust denier."

Gibson's ultraconservative Catholic father, Hutton Gibson, is on record as doubting the Holocaust, describing it last year as "maybe not all fiction, but most of it is."