Mel Gibson’s Icon label is still developing his epic Viking period film that he will direct, Slashfilm is reporting. Randall Wallace, who previously worked with the filmmaker on ‘Braveheart,’ has turned in a second script draft for the movie. The news of the continued work on the Viking film, which Gibson said he wanted to work partially in a bygone version of the Norse language, comes as Icon made a deal with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment for his action movie ‘Get The Gringo.’ The deal is for a direct-to-consumer release, leading the movie to exclusively premiere on May 1, 2012 on DirecTV. The deal will charge $10.99 per home…

In an effort to make up for his most recent movie, the Diane Lane horse drama ‘Secretariat,’ under-performing at the box office, director Randall Wallace is hoping to rebound by putting together a new independent movie. Wallace wants to bring ‘Love and Honor,’ the story of the reign of the Russian czarina Catherine the Great during the 18th century, to the big screen, Cinemablend.com is reporting. Rumors are also circulating that ‘G.I. Joe’ star Channing Tatum is attached to star as a Virginian solider. He’s sent to Russia by Benjamin Franklin to speak to the czarina. His job is to convince Catherine not to support the British in the pending…

Variety.com is reporting John Malkovich is joining the cast of “Secretariat,” the Randall Wallace-directed drama for Disney and Mayhem Pictures about the famous racehorse. Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray of Mayhem are producing. Malkovich will play the former jockey turned trainer Lucien Laurin, who became the trainer of the 1973 Triple Crown-winning racehorse The film will be focusing on, alongside the story of the horse’s rise to fame, the relationship between the horse and his owner Penny Chenery (Diane Lane), a housewife who takes over her ailing father’s horse farm though she knows next to nothing about horses. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more “Secretariat” news. By Costa Koutsoutis (Source:…