One of the most anticipated sequels could begin filming at the beginning of 2025

20 years after the premiere of The Passion of Christits sequel would be increasingly closer to being realized, after the latest information it published Collider exclusively.

The specialized film website revealed that Mel Gibson He was traveling through Puglia (southern Italy) and Malta, where he met with authorities and where he could begin filming the film at the beginning of 2025. The idea of ​​doing it between the first months of the year is to avoid the flood of tourists during the European summer. , and thus give truth to the story that happened after the Passion, in the middle of autumn.

Jim Caviezel will return to take on the role of Jesus 20 years from The Passion of Christ. Although the actor remains in shape, the truth is that he is 56 years old and not 36 like when he filmed the first film. The passage of time, which would seem to be an impediment (in the story only three days pass between death and Resurrection) in making the film, is something that the director claimed to have completely resolved so that it is credible for the viewer.

“I have ways of dealing with it, because it's twenty years but it's supposed to be three days. It has its own peculiar problems, which I think I can solve,” he said.

Little is known about what the history of The Passion of Christ: The Resurrection although Mel Gibson I already hinted that the most poetic and philosophical script was chosen, which will narrate “the descent of Jesus to hell” as if it were “an acid trip.

In 2020, it was the Jim Caviezel the one who spoke, for the first time, about the sequel, which he defined as “the biggest film in the history of the world, it could be two films, it could be three.” Far from this ambitious plan, the idea of Gibson It would be, now, to make a single film of no less than 2 and a half hours in length.