Filming Will Soon Get Underway For ‘Passion Of The Christ’ Sequel: Report

The filming of the sequel to the highly-anticipated movie is expected to begin within the next few months. “Passion of the Christ” Mel Gibson and Mel Gibson work on several drafts of the screenplay.

According to reports, the 67-year old actor, director, and producer has been working on The. “The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection,” For almost a decade, a sequel to Gibson’s hit film of 2004 was released. CBN News.com reported.

“Gibson has been hard at work on the screenplay with ‘Braveheart’ screenwriter Randall Wallace,” Veteran film journalist Jordan Ruimy shared.

“There have already been six drafts,” Ruimy was added.  “‘Resurrection’ would focus on the twenty-four hours encompassing Jesus’ passion and the events that occurred three days between his crucifixion and resurrection.”

The outlet reported that Jim Caviezel would be reprising the role of Jesus, alongside several original stars like Maia Morgenstern playing Mary, Christo Jivkov portraying John, and Francesco De Vito portraying Peter.

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Wallace was interviewed by the ahref=”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/mel-gibson-planning-passion-christ-901299/”>Hollywood Reporter 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.”

“I always wanted to tell this story … The Passion is the beginning, and there’s a lot more story to tell,” He concluded.

Gibson had previously spoken out about the size of the subject and said that it would take a while to tell the story.https://www.christianpost.com/news/mel-gibson-tells-greg-laurie-passion-of-the-christ-sequel-the-resurrection-may-be-next-movie-168722/”>Christian Post noted.

“It’s called The Resurrection,” The star shared the moment.  “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.”

“But in order to read it, experience and explore probably deeper meanings of what it’s about, it’s going to take some doing and Randall Wallace is up to the task,” He concluded. “He is also, as well as a brilliant writer, he is a great director. He directed ‘We Were Soldiers’ and ‘Heaven is for Real’ and stuff. So, he is a good writer and director.”

CBN News stated that the 2004 film was rated R. It was a huge hit, earning more than $600,000,000 on a $30 million budget.

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