Want more hot BPR News stories? Sign up for our morning news blast HERE
Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” (2004) made over $600,000,000 worldwide and is the 29th highest grossing film in U.S. history. Over 12 years later, it remains the biggest box office Christian movie of all time.
Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, “Braveheart” screenwriter Randall Wallace and Gibson are teaming up to write and produce a sequel to “Passion” that will focus on events surrounding Christ’s resurrection.
Wallace, who was nominated for an Oscar for his screenwriting on best picture winner “Braveheart,” also co-wrote and directed the 2014 Christian drama “Heaven Is For Real.” He and Gibson decided to do the “Passion” sequel while making “Hacksaw Ridge” together, a World War II drama, opening in November, about Desmond Doss, the first Congressional Medal of Honor winner who also happened to be a conscientious objector.
Wallace, who studied the resurrection while he majored in religion at Duke University, told THR, “I always wanted to tell this story. The Passion is the beginning and there’s a lot more story to tell.”
According to Wallace, the success of Christian movies and the demand for more definitely played into he and Gibson’s willingness to write and make the sequel. “The evangelical community considers ‘The Passion’ the biggest movie ever out of Hollywood, and they kept telling us that they think a sequel will be even bigger.”
Sony’s resurrection themed February release, “Risen,” cost $20 million to make and grossed over $46 million worldwide.
Sign up for our morning news blast HERE
DONATE TO BIZPAC REVIEW
Please help us! If you are fed up with letting radical big tech execs, phony fact-checkers, tyrannical liberals and a lying mainstream media have unprecedented power over your news please consider making a donation to BPR to help us fight them. Now is the time. Truth has never been more critical!
- West Point accepts Parkland student’s application to military academy after his tragic death - February 21, 2018
- Nancy Pelosi is in middle of grandstanding at Arizona townhall when question yelled from audience grinds it to a halt - February 21, 2018
- Columbine survivor blows media’s plan to exploit naive students – here’s what happens when they grow up - February 20, 2018
Comment
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the ∨ icon below and to the right of that comment. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.
