Posted on 09/02/2016 7:52:31 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Mel Gibson confirmed he's working on a sequel to his 2004 film "Passion of the Christ."
"And you know, it's not the 'Passion 2.' It's called 'The Resurrection,'" Gibson told evangelist Greg Laurie at SoCal Harvest, according to IndieWire.com.
Gibson explained that the sequel will focus on Jesus' resurrection.
"Of course, that's a very big subject and it needs to be looked at because we don't want to just do a simple rendering of it — you know, read what happened," the actor added.
"Passion of the Christ" screenwriter Randall Wallace told The Hollywood Reporter that "there's a lot more story to tell."
"The evangelical community considers 'The Passion' the biggest movie ever out of Hollywood, and they kept telling us that they think a sequel will be even bigger," Wallace said.
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When the original came out I wound up as one of the last of my group of friends to see it. I didn’t want to know how the movie portrayed different events and just wanted to see it with no idea what was coming.
They were talking about it one day and I said “hey, don’t tell me how it ends. I haven’t seen it yet”. I got some pretty shocked looks.
Now I remember the whole theater was crying together.
Wow!
The Resurrection is quite a story too. Its where we are headed......
Now if George Lucas gets involved, we'll probably see Passion 3: The Morman Awakens first.
The Passion was rough to watch, but of course I knew that going into it. Outside of the martyrdom of some of the apostles, the Book of Acts will be much less graphic and more uplifting at least.
I loved Passion and will look forward to this movie, although I think this is being spurred by the success of RISEN.
“although I think this is being spurred by the success of RISEN.”
That and... Mel’s divorce cleaned him out of most of his Passion profits. He announced this new film as soon as he was out from under that financial mess. I don’t doubt his sincerity, just saying he has faced massive financial challenges. Imagine handing over hundreds of millions to someone who had no part in making your film.
Im no catholic apologist, but Mel the Catholic, made and financed a movie about the topic, and it has a Catholic viewpoint? Shocking!
“Sequel?” More chase scenes and explosions?
I think Dr. Luke did a pretty good job documenting things.
I think the Mary mind-meld scenes were appalling.
That alone killed it for me, not to mention all of the other extra-biblical inventions incorporated into it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_bloodline
You say :”He needs to leave out weird mystic visions from the screenplay.
Stick to the Bible, Mel.”
Straight up.
Those ‘visions” totally spoiled it. The story of Jesus needs NO embellishment.
Best “Jesus” movie is STILL Franco Zeffirelli’s “Jesus of Nazareth”
Probably the most top star-studded movie of all time - perfect casting, strong music theme, ‘Old Master paintings’ scenes... Robert Powell as Jesus - perfect.
Every Christian household should have this - and have a ‘family night’ to show it at least once a year - Easter and/or Christmas.
(That said, I hope Gibson uses Jim Caviezel for Jesus again - Beside the right face, Caviezel is a true Christian...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50IiF1rTTGQ
Caviezel - the Christian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1sVB0JBBMo
I hope Jim Caviezel is in it again.
What has diverged, the movie or the “rich history of the Church.”
Just not clear what you meant to say, so thanks in advance.
Are you speaking of the Church or the movie?
Is he going to scream and cuss at Jews on the set?
So in the sequel will Jesus come back and say “what the heck have you all been up to!”
Frank Rich crying like a baby.
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