“I asked him [Gibson] would you be ready to go in January, he said ‘yeah, maybe.’ I said, ‘How about the end of fall,’ he said, ‘Yeah, maybe.’ So who knows…. it might be two films, maybe three, but I think it’s two.”
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The film was originally reported to start filming this spring but now it's starting this Fall. Caviezel is returning to play Jesus Christ.
Gibson spoke to Outstanding Screenplays about the sequel. Gibson and co-writer Randall Wallace have two scripts for the project with one of them “very structured and very strong” and more along the lines of expectations. The other is “like an acid trip” going to other realms, visiting hell, watching angels falling, etc., and Gibson says: “It’s like crazy.”
The Passion of the Christ is one of the biggest faith-based film success stories to date, making $612 million on a budget of $30 million.
Source: DarkHorizons