Mel Gibson has fired another volley in his seemingly never-ending war of words with screenwriter Joe Eszterhas over their abandoned film project "The Maccabees."

In an interview with Coming Soon, Gibson unloads both barrels on his former partner Eszterhas, saying the screenwriter took forever to turn in a script -- and when he did, it was "heinous."

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"Okay, so a guy gets paid to write a screenplay and doesn't turn anything in for 14 months," Gibson told the website. "That's a serious problem. Not even an outline so I lost my nutter with him. I developed a Viking script [for the project 'Berserker'] almost a year after he started, and I already had a second draft and he hadn't even given me an outline. And he was at my home on a working holiday and he didn't even bring one word."

During the interview, Gibson insisted he had provided Eszterhas with plenty of fodder for the script in the form of story ideas, imagery and dialogue -- little of which made it into the final (and, according to Gibson, hastily assembled) script.

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Add Mel Gibson's stepmother to the list of people who claim to have been screamed at and menaced by the actor.

Joye Hicks Gibson, the wife of the actor's father Hutton Gibson, filed a request for a temporary restraining order with Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, claiming that the actor and notorious hothead is trying to force her out of the home that she shares with her husband, and manipulated his father into filing for divorce from her.

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The 78-year-old also accuses Gibson of "terrorizing" her, recounting multiple instances in which he allegedly lost his temper with her and left her fearing for her physical safety.

According to Joye -- who has been married to Hutton Gibson since December 2001 -- her husband filed divorce papers in June, but she asserts in her request for the restraining order that Mel "manipulated Hutton while he was in a weakened physical or mental state due to illness."

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Joye cites the fact that the papers were filed while she was in Texas and ...

The ongoing feud between screenwriter Joe Eszterhas and actor Mel Gibson has taken another twist.

Eszterhas has called upon Gibson to distance himself from supporters who've expressed anti-Semitic statements, after receiving death threats and hate mail from some people who have apparently sided with Gibson in the bitter rift between him and Eszterhas.

"Many of Mel Gibson's supporters in chat rooms and on websites have posted anti-Semitic comments. I've received hate mail and death threats. I've had to ask our local police department to pay special attention to my family's safety," Eszterhas told TheWrap in a statement.

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"I call upon my fellow Catholic, Mel Gibson, to disavow himself from supporters who are anti-Semites," Eszterhas continued.

Eszterhas' spokesman, Stephen Jaffe, told TheWrap that law enforcement is investigating the threats against Eszterhas, which have come both over the Internet and through more personal means.

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"I can't comment because there's an ongoing investigation," Jaffe told TheWrap. "You're asking me were they direct or indirect? Both."

Eszterhas also implored Gibson to personally condemn anti-Semitism and make amends for his own ...