Mel Gibson Shares New 'Resurrection of the Christ' Details: 'Other Realms,' Moses and David
Filmmaker Mel Gibson is shedding new light on his two-part "Resurrection of the Christ" in a series of new interviews, revealing that the story will venture into “other realms” and feature major figures from the Old Testament.
Gibson directed the 2004 blockbuster "The Passion of the Christ" and is the filmmaker behind the new two-film project, the first of which – "The Resurrection of the Christ: Part One" – is scheduled to hit theaters on May 6, 2027.
The films will spotlight the events before and after Christ’s resurrection, although Gibson has hinted in new interviews that the story will venture beyond what audiences might expect.
“It takes a pretty broad trip from our own broken world to other realms and stuff with different natures and connects all of them,” Gibson told journalist Raymond Arroyo for his podcast "Arroyo Grande."
Gibson previously told "The Joe Rogan Experience" that in order “to really tell the story properly,” the plot has to “start with the fall of the angels, which means you’re in another place, you’re in another realm. You need to go to hell.”
The new films will also include scenes with Old Testament characters who looked forward to the coming of Christ, Gibson said.
“You hit benchmark events like Abraham and Moses and David and the resurrection,” he told Arroyo. “... It's all like Christic prophecy, and it is fulfilled in one Person. What's the chances of that? You'd have a better chance of winning the lottery.”
It took Gibson and his team about 10 years to write the scripts.
The new films will be in English, unlike the 2004 film "The Passion of the Christ," which was produced in Aramaic, Latin and Hebrew.
“I think the complexity of an event like the resurrection, which is impossible to comprehend – one has to delve into more sources, and I thought it was just silly to make people read subtitles in a foreign language when they were dealing with such heady concepts,” he said. “And so it asks more of you, but we help them along with their own language.”
Gibson also told The Christian Post the films will take audiences beyond the earthly events.
“I mean, you'll be in the firmament before the creation,” he said. “You'll be in the hell of the just, and then you'll be in the hell of the damned. And so it jumps around a little bit. It doesn't just stay on the planet here. It gets around.”
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Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
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Originally published September 08, 2026.
