Mel Gibson Unearths Plans for Sequel to ‘The Hobby Of The Christ’

Mel Gibson hopes to start out manufacturing on a sequel to his 2004 movie The Hobby Of The Christ subsequent yr. The actor and director gave the impression on Joe Rogan‘s podcast The Joe Rogan Revel in and showed {that a} script for the film, titled The Resurrection Of The Christ, has been written.

“I’m hoping subsequent yr someday,” Gibson informed Rogan of his plans. “There’s so much required as it’s an acid travel. I’ve by no means learn the rest adore it.” He added that he wrote it along his brother and screenwriter Randall Wallace over a seven-year duration.

“My brother and I and Randall all kind of congregated in this,” the actor stated. “So there’s some just right heads put in combination, however there’s some loopy stuff. And I feel with the intention to actually inform the tale correctly you need to actually get started with the autumn of the angels, which means that you’re in every other position, you’re in every other realm. You want to visit hell. You want to visit Sheol.”

Gibson showed that he plans to re-cast Jim Caviezel within the lead function of Jesus, even if he would possibly wish to use “a couple of tactics” like CGI de-aging since greater than twenty years have handed for the reason that first movie. He described the movie as “very formidable.”

“It’s about discovering the best way in that’s now not tacky or too evident,” he stated. “I feel I’ve concepts about how to try this and tips on how to evoke issues and feelings in other folks from the best way you depict it and the best way you shoot it. So I’ve been excited about it for a very long time. It’s now not going to be simple and it’s going to require numerous making plans and I’m now not wholly certain I will be able to pull it off to let you know the reality, it’s tremendous formidable. However I’ll take a crack at it as a result of that’s what you were given to do, proper, stroll as much as the plate, proper?” 

Gibson recorded the podcast with Rogan previous this week. Whilst he was once away, his longtime house in Los Angeles was once misplaced within the fires. In an interview on NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas Experiences, Gibson showed that his spouse and son safely evacuated.

“[I was] roughly unwell comfy whilst we have been speaking, as a result of I knew my community was once on hearth,” he stated of doing the podcast. “So I believed, ‘I wonder whether my position continues to be there.’ But if I were given house, certain sufficient, it wasn’t there. I went house and I stated to myself, neatly, no less than I haven’t were given any of the ones pesky plumbing issues anymore.”

Whilst chatting with Rogan, Gibson blamed the fires on California governor Gavin Newsom. “In 2019, I feel Newsom stated, ‘You already know, I’m gonna care for the forests and care for the forests and do all that kinda stuff,’” Gibson stated informed Rogan. “He didn’t do the rest.” He added, “I feel all our tax greenbacks most likely went for Gavin’s hair gel.”

Gibson’s newest movie, Flight Possibility, arrives in theaters Jan. 24. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery, and Topher Grace, and marks Gibson’s go back to director’s chair after the acclaim he won for Hacksaw Ridge in 2016, which earned him Oscar nominations for Perfect Director and Perfect Image.