Director Mel Gibson has given more insight into the plot of his upcoming film The Resurrection of the Christ, telling the Christian Post it’ll feature different realms, both mentioned and unmentioned in the biblical text.
Unlike The Passion of the Christ, which was released in 2004 on a $30 million budget and went on to gross more than $600 million worldwide, the sequel will have a budget of more than $250 million and will be released in two installments, with the first releasing May 6, 2027.
“You’re going to different realms, of course. I mean, you’ll be in the firmament before the creation. You’ll be in the Hell of the just, and then you’ll be in the Hell of the damned. And so it jumps around a little bit. It doesn’t just stay on the planet here. It gets around.”
Gibson is likely referring to depicting Sheol or Abraham’s Bosom, contrasted with Gehenna and the Lake of Fire, as conceptualized in the story of the Rich man and Lazarus.
In the spirit of John 21:25, Gibson also revealed that the film would include elements not shown in the gospels.
If you look at the synoptic Gospels and they are synoptic, which means they don’t tell you everything. And even John says, ‘Y’know, hey, there were many other things [Jesus] said and did which, if they were to be written down, couldn’t fill all the libraries of all the world,’ right? So there’s a lot of stuff that wasn’t written and the Gospels are synoptic.
The Resurrection will also include depictions of the fall of the angels and Lucifer and the creation of the world.
Gibson previously told Joe Rogan that the film would conclude with the death of the last apostle.
[The script is] an acid trip. I’ve never read anything like it. There’s some crazy stuff. In order to tell the story properly you have to start with the fall of the angels. You’re in another realm. You need to go Hell. You need to go to Sheol.
You got to have [Satan]s] origin. I have ideas about how to do that and how to evoke things about to depict that. I’ve been thinking about that for a long time. It’s going to require a lot of planning. I’m not sure I can pull it off. It’s super ambitious, but I’m going to take a crack at it … It’s about trying to find a way in that’s not cheesy or obvious. It’s almost like a magic trick. [The story] goes from the fall of the angels to the death of the last apostle.
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The key to understanding this distinction is found in John 5:25-29, understanding how the Gospel reached back through time, how the ceremonial law was always about the Gospel pointing directly to Jesus who perfectly fulfilled the law, and how all who lived before were also justified by faith – i.e., faith in action, to believe God and to obey Him (Rom. 4, Heb. 11, etc.). When Jesus says no one comes to the Father but by Him, that means no one. It includes all past, present, or future. And so once you begin to understand this and how it all works then it becomes clearer why it was called “Abraham’s Bosom”.
“So there’s a lot of stuff that wasn’t written and the Gospels are synoptic”. Ok so he thinks that gives him license to fabricate additions to Scripture. Sounds catholic to me…
I am a Catholic. I don’t really approve of this guy creating a big “movie” about Jesus coming back from the dead, but I think Mr. Gibson is sincere in his belief that it is a story that needs telling, and perhaps, the fact that it is a bigger production than his last will mean that he has put in some seriously righteous elements, which may indeed bring more souls over to God’s side… I don’t believe Mr. Gibson intends to “fabricate additions” out of whole cloth. He is very respectful and believes in what he is doing, he deserves credit for that. You sound Protestant to me.
His first movie was liked because he tried to follow the bible now hes trying to pull a fast one. Using other sources. Your right .
@Rob MN: this is a protestant news sight, its called PROTESTIA… Yes, most of us are protestant, and we reject the pope, the church of Rome, its idolatry, & esp the Eucharist and baptismal justification. – I recommend you go rec read the gospels, Hebrews, galations. The Catholic church is not a true church, it is despotic, works-based, and of the devil. I’m not saying you are, I mean the RCC itself.
@Rob MN: this is a protestant news sight, its called PROTESTIA… Yes, most of us are protestant, and we reject the pope, the church of Rome, its idolatry, & esp the Eucharist and baptismal justification. – I recommend you go rec read the gospels, Hebrews, galations. The Catholic church is not a true church, it is despotic, works-based, and of the devil. I’m not saying you are, I mean the RCC itself.
Synoptic doesn’t mean what he thinks it means. And we don’t need him filling in any blanks for us.
Thanks for calling attention to this, Ray. The Christian Post’s Ian Giatti quotes Mel Gibson saying, “If you look at the synoptic Gospels and they are synoptic, which means they don’t tell you everything …”
In that context, “Synoptic Gospels” is typically capitalized and refers to those written by Matthew, Mark and Luke, whose perspectives are similar (optic=seen, syn=together) in ways John’s perspective isn’t.
If it meant only that “they don’t tell you everything,” all books would be synoptic.
As I see it, the point is that all of God’s word is complete and sufficient. It conveys the information and message that God wanted to convey, that He deems necessary to convey, and no more or less. Surely if it were to give us a detailed play-by-play record of every second of every day, that could take away from the overall message. Even John’s gospel doesn’t give a detailed minute-by-minute. None of scripture does so. And it is all “synoptic” from that perspective. But that which the Holy Spirit did not include is either irrelevant or is something that God does not want us to know, and some of it we know has been “sealed” such that none will understand it until God allows (Daniel, etc.).
It is complete and the message is complete in the sense that it conveys to us all that God wants us to know and all that we need to know. It is perfectly complete and sufficient for its purpose. But it is not “complete” in the sense that it does not give a detailed minute-by-minute account.
Another important point to remember is that it is complete as a whole. No one book containing only what the Holy Spirit conveyed to one single man conveys the entirety of the information that God wants to convey. But as a whole, it is complete and sufficient.
The united states of america is now the 4th largest Roman Catholic Country in the world . Mel Gibson knows That and that there are more Roman Catholics now living in this country than any where else in the world.. He no longer has to worry about is his movies biblical or not . He can use the apocrapha or any other sources he wants. .. Its not some movie i care to watch . He even tells the christian post that its not going to be all biblical. With his comment some relms not mentioned in the biblical text.. I think if a christian is going to see it . they better mention that to new christian the whyy of it before .. its better than explaning to a new christian why they saw you coming “out” of a bar More dizzy than when you went in. There looking to you as an example .