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Describing his script as an “acid trip,” Mel Gibson will begin shooting The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection of the Christ in 2026. The upcoming film will be the long-awaited sequel to The Passion of the Christ, Gibson’s 2004 blockbuster about the final days of Jesus on earth.
Speaking on Joe Rogan’s podcast this week, Gibson said of the script, “I’ve never read anything like it. There’s some crazy stuff. In order to tell the story properly you have to start with the fall of the angels. You’re in another realm. You need to go Hell. You need to go to Sheol.”
Gibson added: “It’s going to require a lot of planning. I’m not sure I can pull it off. It’s super ambitious, but I’m going to take a crack at it … “
According to Gibson, Jim Caviezel will once again play the role of Jesus, as he did in the original 2004 film. He noted that he’d been working on the script for the past seven years with his brother Donal Gibson and Randall Wallace, who wrote the script for Braveheart.
This time around, the dialogue will probably be in English rather than Hebrew or Aramaic because of the complex theological issues involved: “Who gets back up three days later after he gets murdered?” Gibson added. “Buddha didn’t do that shit.”
Gibson personally believes in the orthodox interpretation of the three days following Christ’s crucifixion, which holds that Christ literally descended into hell and rose from the dead on Easter morning.
The Resurrection of the Christ will not be limited to the three days between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, however. It will include scenes describing what is referred to as “salvation history,” taking audiences from the fall of the angels at the creation of the world to the death of the last apostle, John, at the end of the first century.”
With a global box office of $612 million The Passion of the Christ was the highest-grossing independent film of all time. It was accused of anti-Semitism because of its focus on how Jewish leaders of the time were implicated in Christ’s death.
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