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By Griff Griffin
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Mel Gibson's sequel to The Passion of the Christ will be like an "acid trip," according to remarks made by the director/actor in a recent interview.
Appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience, Gibson shared ambitious plans to continue the story of Jesus Christ following his crucifixion in 2004's epic biblical drama. That story, apparently, includes the devil.
"I think in order to really tell the story properly you have to really start with the fall of the angels, which is you're in another place, you're in another realm," Gibson tells Rogan. "You need to go Hell. You need to go to Sheol."
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Rogan asks, "So you're going to have Hell? You're going to have Satan all that?"
"Yeah. Sure. You got to have his origin," responds Gibson.
The star isn't entirely sure how he'll depict Hell, admitting "it's not going to be easy, and it's going to require a lot of planning, and I'm not wholly sure I can pull it off to tell you the truth," but "I'll take a crack at it."
However he does it, the Apocalypto director is adamant people have never seen anything like it before. "There's a lot required because it's an acid trip. When we wrote it, it is like, I've never read anything like it...It's very ambitious. That's all I'll say. It took a long time to write. It's really ambitious and it goes from the fall of the angels to the death of the last Apostle."
Gibson also confirmed Jim Caviezel will reprise his role as Jesus. There's just one problem: Caviezel is now 20 years older, while the sequel takes place only three days after the first film. However, Gibson will use VFX to de-age the actor, as well as some of the others who appeared alongside him.
Filming is set to begin in 2026, but that's not set in stone. Gibson says, "I don't have a start date. I just have to begin pre-production and see what happens."
The project has been ongoing since at least 2016. That year he appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and shared plans for his Passion of the Christ sequel, as seen below.
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