It doesn't say it's a done deal. I doubt Mel's company ever seriously considered this, let alone doing it.
Well, one can only hope that Gibson's company is tying up the rights to this film and then just "sits" on it.
speaking of Mel Gibson......
The O'Reilly Factor and The No Spin Zone, Bill's non-fiction books, have both reached number one on The New York Times bestseller list. Mel Gibson's Icon Productions also has optioned Bill's novel Those Who Trespass for the motion picture screen.
http://www.billoreilly.com/pg/jsp/general/billbio.jspLet me stick up for Mel Gibson, because I think some wires have been crossed and he is being unfairly tarred in this mess.
Gibson has been trying to put together a movie version of the classic Ray Bradbury scifi novel "Fahrenheit 451," which he would direct. (See
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=1238). That book predates 9/11 by decades, and Gibson has been working on his version since at least 1998.
I suspect that Moore chose his title as a pun on or homage to the original novel (which does deal with your typical scifi evil totalitarian government whose firemen are in charge of book-burning--watch Moore try to draw some sort of parallels to the curent administration).
While I have no specific information one way or the other, comments Gibson has made in past interviews suggest that he is a decent man and I cannot believe he would lower himself to have anything to do with this POS (the movie or Michael Moore, take your pick). Also, it would be a weird coincidence for him to work on two similarly titled movies.