What will bring Mel Gibson back to the big screen, you say? A chance to get his hand up a beaver, that’s what! E!Online reports,

E! News can confirm that the Hollywood heavyweights, who last costarred in a movie together 15 years ago in Maverick, are set to join forces again for The Beaver.

A quirky comedy drama along the lines of 2007’s indie hit Lars and the Real Girl (or, depending on your humor, South Park), the Kyle Killen-penned script follows a down-and-out man (Gibson) who finds comfort wearing a beaver hand puppet. Foster will not only play his wife, but she’ll also helm the film, marking her first directing effort since 1995’s Home for the Holidays.

Well, if there’s anything that would draw apparent opposites lesbian Jodie Foster and chauvinist Mel Gibson together, it’s the love of the beaver.No word yet on whether the beaver puppet will be sporting sugartits.