{"id":21581,"date":"2012-07-12T11:23:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T08:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=21581"},"modified":"2022-09-22T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T14:20:08","slug":"mel-gibson-to-star-at-hit-turkish-series-magnificent-century-21581","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/mel-gibson-to-star-at-hit-turkish-series-magnificent-century-21581\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Gibson to star at hit Turkish series Magnificent Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21592\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21592\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-21592\" title=\"Mel Gibson to star at hit Turkish series Magnificent Century\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/mel-gibson-turkish-series-nationalturk-0455-544x360.jpg\" alt=\"Mel Gibson to star at hit Turkish series Magnificent Century\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mel Gibson to star at hit Turkish series Magnificent Century, Mel Gibson as William Wallace at Braveheart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Mel Gibson, the Hollywood ace actor and director will play in the upcoming season at a popular Turkish Tv series &#8216; Muhte\u015fem Y\u00fczy\u0131l&#8217; (Magnificent Century), which is based on the life of longest reigning Ottoman Sultan S\u00fcleyman I ( Suleiman the Magnificent).<\/h2>\n<p>Istanbul \/ NationalTurk &#8211; Turkish Historical Drama Magnificent Century ( Muhte\u015fem Y\u00fczy\u0131l ) is playing big stakes as the producers of one of the most successful Turkish Tv shows want to add Hollywood ace Mel Gibson to its cast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/brad-pitt-to-star-in-turkish-tv-series-15103\">Earlier producers of the show contacted Hollywood mega-star Brad Pitt to cast him for one episode of Magnificent Century.<\/a>\u00a0Turkish Tv columnist\u00a0\u00a0Y\u00fcksel Aytu\u011f wrote today that the Turkish production company TIMS is trying to get an agreement with Hollywood&#8217;s \u00a0popular male actors. Brad Pitt is still the # 1 candidate, if he won&#8217;t be available then Mel Gibson will be starring in the series.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, Brad Pitt or Mel Gibson will be playing a\u00a0Mongolian Khan at \u00a0&#8216;Magnificent Century&#8217; \u00a0where he is going to be seen in battle scenes.<\/p>\n<h3>Mel Gibson in a Turkish TV Series as a Mongolian Khan<\/h3>\n<p>Mel Gibson is quite an interesting figure at Hollywood. His successful career as artist and director ( Lethal Weapon, Braveheart, Passion of Christ, Apocalypto ) is on a slight decline, however \u00a0outside his career, remarks by Gibson have generated accusations of homophobia, antisemitism, racism, and misogyny; Mel Gibson has previously attributed the statements to his battle with alcoholism.<\/p>\n<h4>Watch Magnificent Century Trailer from last season<\/h4>\n[media id=541 width=610 height=340]\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mel Gibson, the Hollywood ace actor and director will play in the upcoming season at a popular Turkish Tv series &#8216; Muhte\u015fem Y\u00fczy\u0131l&#8217; (Magnificent Century), which is based on the life of longest reigning Ottoman Sultan S\u00fcleyman I ( Suleiman the Magnificent)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,122,63,45,17,118,79,172,174,194,173,14],"tags":[18053,19073,16458,19070,27919,19075,11157,27917,27916,27914,27915,27918,27921,27920,19074,19071,19072,27913],"class_list":["post-21581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-cinema","category-daily","category-entertainment","category-europe","category-hot","category-magazine","category-turkey-choice","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","category-world","tag-brad-pitt","tag-brad-pitt-turkey","tag-hollywood","tag-magnificent-century","tag-magnificent-century-trailer","tag-magnificent-century-turkey","tag-mel-gibson","tag-mel-gibson-magnificent-century","tag-mel-gibson-muhtesem-yuzyil","tag-mel-gibson-turkey","tag-mel-gibson-turkish-tv-series","tag-mel-gibson-turkish-tv-show","tag-mel-gibson-tv","tag-muhtesem-yuzyil-trailer","tag-ottoman-sultan","tag-suleiman-the-magnificent","tag-turkish-tv-series","tag-turkish-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}