Fresh from the news that he’s set to play a rowdy Santa Claus in Fatman, Mel Gibson has now added another project to his slate with Deadline reporting that he’ll be starring alongside Kate Bosworth in Force of Nature.

The action film will see Gibson as a stubborn retired police detective who has to protect the residents of a building during a hurricane evacuation when violent criminals turn up to pull off a mysterious heist.

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Force of Nature is being directed by Michael Polish from a script by Cory Miller, and is being produced by Randall Emmett and George Furla of Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films, who recently worked with Gibson on the upcoming Boss Level from director Joe Carnahan.