When it comes to summoning two powerful talents together into a pitch room with the hopes of making celluloid magic, one would have to be on some seriously strong behind-the-counter cold medicine (you know, the kind they make you sign for) to even dream of putting Britney Spears and Mel Gibson together in lights. However, cameras caught the two seemingly non-connected stars having a business meeting together in Malibu over the weekend. Spears, who's recently updated her weave to a state of barely secure chocolate pieces, arrived "conservatively" dressed in a tight green turtleneck and tighter jeans and was refreshingly mellow for the cameras; no trace of an English accent or improvised joke (even after ducking into the wrong restaurant). But Mel, ever the charmer, hustled through the backdoor.

Though we hope Britney had been called to a meeting with Mel to fill in the cast of his upcoming Under And Alone, which stars Gibson as an undercover agent infiltrating motorcycle gangs in Southern California, the film is already in production. Still, Spears would be a cameo natural; looking rougher than ever and sounding like she's come to embrace misery as a primary emotion, stepping in as some kind of abused, washed-up rider's girlfriend, all while dressed in ripped leather (and with no need for a knotty, tar-coloured wig!) would be a better comeback choice than her infamous Lip Syncing On Valium appearance.

But there's also Mel's upcoming Sam And George, in which Mel will play a freed prisoner reuniting with an old friend (presumably named either Sam or George). If Spears really wants to prove herself, she'll instruct Gibson to change one of the title characters' names to Samantha or Georgia and gum-chew her way into a starring role. But sadly, considering the meeting was held at the Romanov, the two were probably just (yawn) on a date, and are planning a litter of right-wing, baby-saving, Holocaust-denying kids. Face it, movies just can't compete with a Hollywood sect of proselytizing Gibneys infiltrating the cultural narrative.

• BRITNEY SPEARS DINES WITH MEL GIBSON [Us]

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