Nolan Fans

The Hollywood Reporter says that Gibson will next direct a World War II naval thriller called Destroyer, which is based on author John Wukovits’s book Hell from the Heavens: The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II’s Greatest Kamikaze Attack. The story tracks the heroic crew of the USS Laffey, nicknamed “The Ship That Would Not Die” after its crew defended it against multiple kamikaze attacks in 1945. Rosalind Ross, who wrote an episode of a little-seen 2014 TV show called Matador, wrote the script. (THR says she’s also Gibson’s longtime girlfriend.)