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.
