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Posted on 05/22/2026 9:31:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Jaakko Ohtonen replaced Jim Caviezel for the sequel to 'The Passion of the Christ,' which releases its first part in March 2027, followed by a second part in 2028.
Lionsgate is shifting its plans for its two-part sequel to The Resurrection of Christ. The studio is pushing part one back a few months from March 26, 2027, to May 6, 2027. And the second part, previously set for May 6, 2027, is now moving back a year to May 25, 2028.
With the news comes the first-look photo of Jaakko Ohtonen as Jesus Christ, stepping into the sandals worn by Jim Caviezel in The Passion of the Christ, the Gibson-directed religious blockbuster released in 2004. It earned more than $610 million globally and stands as the top-grossing indie movie of all time.
“This is far more than a film to me. It’s a mission I’ve carried for over 20 years to tell what I believe is the most important story in human history,” said Gibson in a statement.
As part of its date shifts, Lionsgate has slotted the Johnny Depp starrer Daydrinker for March 26, 2027. The film was the first Hollywood movie to cast Depp in the years following his acrimonious divorce from Amber Heard. He has since been tapped to star in a Scrooge movie at Paramount.
Daydrinker centers on a private yacht bartender (Madelyn Cline) who meets a mysterious guest (Depp), with the duo becoming entangled with a criminal figure (Penélope Cruz). The Amazing Spider-Man filmmaker Marc Webb is behind the project, which has a script from Zach Dean.
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Much of this movie is going to be about the three days when Jesus was physically dead. What he was doing during that time. Gibson has described the movie as being on an “acid trip”. It’s going to be fascinating to see what he’s got in store for us.
Hold on... Where are all the black people, especially the one playing Mother Mary and why isn’t Jesus being played by a woman who transitioned to a man without having that ‘manly thing’ ???
Oh... That’s the odyssey movie... My bad.
Thankfully Christopher Nolan didn’t give us his take on the history of Jesus Christ. That would be a whopper!
Thanks be to God that Mel Gibson doesn’t give a crap about winning an Oscar.
The film is being mocked on-line with the "Jesus is coming and boy is he pissed" meme.
But perhaps we should not underestimate Mel Gibson.
He seems to wink at us, lean into this meme stuff, and then knock it outta the park with the final product.
Honestly, I have yet to be disappointed by a single Mel Gibson film.
Disappointed to hear that part 2 has been pushed back. I won’t second guess Mel, he knows what he’s doing.
Mel Gibson’s first offering, “The Passion of the Christ,” was
the Gibson-directed religious blockbuster released in 2004.
The film earned more than $610 million globally and
stands as the top-grossing indie movie of all time
Pablo Picasso viewed the subject of Christ on the cross as a profound opportunity to explore human agony, raw emotion, and the “life in death” paradox.
As a self-described atheist who was raised as a Catholic, Picasso used the crucifixion to examine extreme psychological states and to re-enchant modern art with the intensity of older, religious imagery.
Picasso’s View of the Crucifixion was as a “Violent, Unspeakable Crime.”
Art historian Timothy Hilton noted that the theme moved Picasso deeply from his youth to old age, seeing it as both a “violent, unspeakable crime and the traditional act of renewal of life”.
His 1930 painting Crucifixion was described as a way to “understand and express the raw agony and desperation of human emotion”.
Picasso was heavily influenced by Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece, which he visited in France in 1932 to study its visceral depiction of suffering.”
He utilized the subject, particularly in his 1930 painting, to explore the juxtaposition of death and the persistence of life, often using black-and-white for Christ surrounded by chaotic, vibrant colors.
His 1932 ink drawings on the subject were regarded as masterpieces that emerged during a tumultuous personal period, acting as a “small plea from his soul” for more spirituality, though not necessarily traditional religious belief.
For Picasso, the crucifixion was a flexible, enduring subject for artistic innovation and emotional expression, leading directly to the techniques and emotional intensity found later in his landmark painting “Guernica.”
I’m surprised Mel did not give the part of Jesus to a trannie! I was so looking forward to seeing it, now I’m not.
Liz, this is all good stuff:
But what about YOU?
You might know ‘about’ this Savior, but have you embraced Him as Lord in your life?
Are you ‘born again’ (John 3:3)
Has He ‘changed you’ ?
Has He delivered your from your fears, your pain, your depression and anger?
Mind the protocols....if a poster doesn’t offer info, its impolite to ask.
“I won’t second guess Mel, he knows what he’s doing.”
I agree.
The extent to which Picasso's work employs spiritual themes and, often, traditional religious iconography, has been most fully explored in The Religious Art of Pablo Picasso (University of California press 2014).
Jane Daggett Dillenberger and John Handley address Picasso’s cryptic 1930 painting of the Crucifixion; the artist’s early life in the Catholic church; elements of transcendence in Guernica; Picasso’s later, fraught relationship with the church, which commissioned him in the 1950s to paint murals for the Temple of Peace chapel in France; and the centrality of religious themes and imagery in bullfighting, the subject of countless Picasso drawings and paintings.
The Catholic church commissioned Picasso (an avowed atheist who
was raised Catholic) to paint murals for the Temple of Peace chapel.
Picasso’s mural La Guerre et la Paix (War and Peace), painted in 1952–1954, is housed in a deconsecrated Romanesque chapel in Vallauris, France, which was transformed into a secular "Temple of Peace". These monumental panels, spanning over 100 \(m^{2}\), are considered one of his most significant post-WWII political statements.
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