{"id":64009,"date":"2025-08-07T02:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/64009\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T02:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:08:06","slug":"the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel-to-hit-theaters-2027-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/64009\/","title":{"rendered":"The Passion of the Christ sequel to hit theaters 2027 in\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The Resurrection of the Christ, Mel Gibson\u2019s long-awaited sequel to the successful 2004 motion picture, The Passion of the Christ, is officially set to debut in spring 2027 in two installments. The Resurrection of the Christ Part One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionsgatepublicity.com\/theatrical\/the-resurrection-of-the-christ-part-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">will<\/a> hit theaters on Good Friday in late March 2027. Part two will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionsgatepublicity.com\/theatrical\/the-resurrection-of-the-christ-part-two\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">released<\/a> just over 40 days later in early May on Ascension Day. The sequels will be released over 20 years after The Passion of the Christ\u2019s record success, which raked in $610 million globally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0335345\/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to<\/a> IMDB.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">What will the film focus on? The films are expected to pick up after the crucifixion of Christ, but exact details of the plots remain unclear. Gibson described the two-part film\u2019s script as \u201can acid trip,\u201d while appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1rYtrS5IbrQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">podcast in January<\/a>. There\u2019s a lot that needs to go into the film, but the script is unlike anything he\u2019s read, Gibson said. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"> Dig deeper: <a href=\"https:\/\/wng.org\/articles\/graphic-by-design-1617622795\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read<\/a> Andrew Coffin\u2019s 2004 interview with Gibson in WORLD Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Resurrection of the Christ, Mel Gibson\u2019s long-awaited sequel to the successful 2004 motion picture, The Passion of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[7969,38731,47341,88,7050,206,2229],"class_list":{"0":"post-64009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-christianity","9":"tag-cinema","10":"tag-easter","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movie","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-religion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}