Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion of the Christ’ Sequel Sets Production Date of January 2024?
Veteran Hollywood Critic Jordan Ruimy has reported that The Passion of the Christ sequel is set to film in Januray 2024 and that “The production date seems set in stone.”
Released in 2004 by Director Mel Gibson, the original film grossed over $600M worldwide on a $30M budget. It received a mixed response within the Christian community, with many praising it and even using it as an outreach tool, and others attending showings to hand out tracts against it, railing against it for it’s explicit Roman Catholic theology, the inclusion of that weird little demon baby, and the fact that it breaks the second commandment. The sequel has been in production hell for the last decade, and now finally seems ready to release.
While the first film covered the 12 hours leading up to his death, the sequel is expected to cover the days after his death, possibly intercut with scenes from Jesus in Hell and the fall of Lucifer . Gibson said a few months ago:
It is such a massive undertaking that you can’t do it lightly and you can’t do it quickly. You have to really consider what it is that you need to show in order to be poignant. It can’t be linear; you have to have many things to juxtapose against one another even from different time periods in order to illustrate what something means in a more full way. And I think it’s going tobe a real jigsaw puzzle to do.
And I have two scripts right, and one of them is very structured and a very strong script and kind of more what you’d expect. And the other is like an acid trip and because you’re going into other realms and stuff. I mean you’re in hell.. It’s like, you know, you’re watching the angels fall..”