Gibson discussed his plans<\/a> for a sequel with Joe Rogan on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, saying he had been working on co-writing the follow-up with his brother and the screenwiter Randall Wallace over a seven-year period.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cMy brother and I and Randall all sort of congregated on this,\u201d the actor said. \u201cSo there\u2019s some good heads put together, but there\u2019s some crazy stuff. And I think in order to really tell the story properly you have to really start with the fall of the angels, which means you\u2019re in another place, you\u2019re in another realm. You need to go to hell. You need to go to Sheol.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n\tHe also confirmed to Rogan that\u00a0he planned to recast Jim Caviezel as Jesus of Nazareth, and described the upcoming film as \u201cvery ambitious.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cBringing it back to theaters in a stunning new restoration allows longtime audiences to experience it in an entirely new way while inviting a new generation to discover it in theaters for the very first time,\u201d Kevin Grayson, president of worldwide distribution for the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, said in a statement on Wednesday. \u201cThis also marks the beginning of the journey toward\u00a0The Resurrection of the Christ: Part One, one of the most ambitious and anticipated faith films ever brought to the screen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mel Gibson-directed 2004 blockbuster hits theaters in September, ahead of his sequel, Resurrection of the Christ: Part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,49244,270],"class_list":["post-528310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mel-gibson","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}