It only took a week, but Robert Deniro has walked off the set of Martin Campbell’s “Edge of Darkness,” a drama that was supposed to also star Mel Gibson. Hmmm, two heavy-weights like that on the same set? One an intolerable grump (DeNiro) and one a known bigot and copious imbiber (Gibson). Sounds like oil and water to us. “Sometimes things don’t work out; it’s called creative differences,” a rep for DeNiro told Variety. Translation: “My client couldn’t stand any of those fuckers and said, ‘Janet, I don’t give a fuck about these amateurs, I’m walkin’!”
The “Goodfellas” actor was supposed to play an operative set to clean up the evidence of a murder and Gibson has signed on to play the victim’s father, who also happens to be a homicide detective. Campbell was always considered a hack until he won the hearts of fanboys and cineastes alike with his smart touch on the Bond reboot, “Casino Royale.” Call us crazy, but we wished DeNiro would have lasted a few more weeks so he and Gibson could have gotten into some on-set scuffles that would have made it into the press. Think of all the stories we could have had of these two working together! Boo…