'still s**t'
Mel Gibson panned for Scottish accent in trailer for new dictionary film The Professor and the Madman
Scots just as unimpressed this time around as they were with Braveheart in the 1990s
MEL GIBSON has been panned for his Scottish accent in the trailer for new movie The Professor and the Madman.
The Hollywood legend was widely ridiculed for his brogue when he played freedom fighter William Wallace in the 1995 Oscar winner Braveheart.
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Now he's tackling the accent again in his new role as the Scot who created the Oxford English Dictionary.
The Professor and the Madman sees Gibson play Sir James Murray, who, with help from a convicted killer, founded the dictionary.
Social media users who watched the official trailer said his Scots dialect hadn't improved in the last two decades.
Taijess Basnaw posted: "Uh oh, Mel Gibson has the Braveheart accent back. Guess he's the Mad man."
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Iain Cameron said: "As a Scotsman, I can confirm that his accent was, and still is, s****."
Sam Armstrong wrote: "Omg those accents are terrible, nobody in Scotland talks like that...at all."
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kwacker45 added: "Accent terrible as usual this is not a Scottish accent."
Donnachaidha Ó Chionnaigh wrote on Twitter: "It’s amazing that, years after his original shameful crimes, Mel Gibson was allowed to do a Scottish accent again."
One person who was impressed by the accent was author Simon Winchester, whose book the film is based on.
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Speaking previously, he said: "It's so long since I saw Braveheart. I think it was the action and not the accent that gripped me in that film.
"But I think Scots will approve of Gibson's Scottish dialect."
The film, which does not yet have a release date, revolves around Murray discovering that his contributor William Minor, played by Sean Penn, was a convicted killer and patient in the Broadmoor criminal lunatic asylum.
Murray, from Denholm, near Hawick in Roxburghshire, left school at 14 because his parents could not afford fees.
He became a teacher at Hawick Grammar School aged 17 and three years later was headmaster.
In 1878, Murray was invited to Oxford to meet the delegates of the Oxford University Press, with a view to his editing a new English dictionary.
As he embarked on the task, he formed a relationship with Minor, a former Union Army captain and surgeon in the American Civil War.
The film has been mired in controversy after Gibson, 63, made an unsuccessful bid to block its release.
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Filming took place in Dublin in 2016 but a massive row broke out after production company Voltage started showing a cut of the movie which the Oscar-winning star was unhappy with.
He wanted extra scenes to be shot at Oxford University, where much of the story of the film actually took place, but claims they refused.
In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles, Gibson alleged that Voltage had violated an agreement to give him approval of the final cut of the £20 million film.
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