It can be difficult to grasp, from the vantage point of 20 years later, just how massive Mel Gibson’s The Passion Of The Christ was back in 2004. Releasing in theaters in February, and then sticking around for more than two months (to say nothing of its various recuts and re-releases), the film made more than $600 million at the box office, quickly becoming the most successful R-rated movie of all time. (A title it only lost this past summer, as Deadpool & Wolverine found at least one way they were, in fact, bigger than Jesus.) And now, it’s apparently coming back.
This is per Consequence, reporting on a piece printed in Italpress, which states that Gibson is reportedly in Malta at the moment, holding conversations with Maltese authorities about using the island nation as a filming location for a new movie: The Passion Of The Christ: Resurrection, with an eye toward beginning filming in 2025.
Neither Gibson, nor star Jim Caviezel, who’s set to return for the sequel, have been shy about their ambitions to get The Passion Of The Christ 2 made. Gibson initially announced the project back in 2016, and Caviezel made his own enthusiasm for the return clear in 2018, saying he expected the movie to be “The biggest film in history.” Gibson even gave a glimpse at plot details in 2022, when he suggested that his script for the movie was less grounded than the first film, which got a lot of its appeal from being a straightforward—if brutally violent—depiction of the story of Christ. “That’s kind of getting a little sci-fi out there,” Gibson noted of his scripts, saying the film will partially take place in “the past and in other realms.”
Jesus 2: The Return of the Messiah.
Gibson even gave a glimpse at plot details in 2022, when he suggested that his script for the movie was less grounded than the first film, which got a lot of its appeal from being a straightforward—if brutally violent—depiction of the story of Christ. “That’s kind of getting a little sci-fi out there,” Gibson noted of his scripts, saying the film will partially take place in “the past and in other realms.”
That sounds like there is a lot of potential for this to go wildly off the rails.
Kind of hope it gets the Rambo 2 treatment. Like the first one is all about his persecution at the hands of a corrupt authority, but in the second one he’s just slaughtering enemy soldiers with a grenade launcher.
“They killed him but that won’t stop, The Revenge of the Christ! And this time, he’s cross! Very, very cross!!”
“When in Rome… kill Romans!”
“Is that a Roman nose? Because it’s roamin’ all over your face!” #splat
“You nailed me to a cross, now I’m going to crucify you!”
“They called me a holy man, now you are a holey man!” #stab #stab #stab
Oh, just like Ghandi 2.
I was hoping for more of a Terminator style Jesus, you know?
I dunno man. That scene near the end of 1 when he’s talking about who he was and who he is now? That shit hits.
I’ve read a book like that although there were no granades and it took place in middle ages. It sucked badly. I don’t think it’s likely for writer to tackle this without being a far right nutjob.
Given the director/writer/producer is such a laid back, grounded and subtle person, I don’t know why you’d think that.
Yeah, I may have been understating how batshit this could get.
Who wrote that article? That movie was never the most successful R rated movie. In 2003 Matrix Reloaded was released and made over $700m and in the time since it was released 8 other movies have made more money than it, with Joker & D&W both making over a billion dollars.
Spot on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_R-rated_films
That list isn’t adjusted for inflation, unfortunately, so the rankings aren’t entirely fair. Two things stood out to me, though. The early 00’s were a little sparse on R-rated hits (you have to go all the way down to #20 before they start to become more common). And 1991’s Terminator 2, adjusted for inflation, surpassed Passion of the Christ by $100,000,000, despite only being #18 (after PotC’s #10).
A short list further down the page shows only the timeline of highest grossing R-rated movies at their time of release. PotC is obviously absent from that list.
After defeating the Balrog in the mines of Moria, Jesus comes back as Buddy Christ.
“There has always been a latent anti-Semitism in the history of all Passion Plays.” - https://www.passionsspiele-oberammergau.de/en/blog/detail/what-seethes-for-a-long-time-the-passion-play-and-anti-semitism-20190903
Another unnecessary sequel?
I’m gonna skip this one, let me know when they put Jesus in space, or make him fight Jason Voorhees, or whatever these sortsa franchises do when they run outta ideas.
Jesus 4: Messiah of Mars
Christ 2: Vengeance
“No more turning the other cheek”
“Turn this cheek motherlover!”
2 Passion 2 Christ
“Jesus H. Christ!”
“The H is silent.”
slashes sword
