{"id":115938,"date":"2025-10-11T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T17:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/115938\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T17:50:08","slug":"passion-of-the-christs-jim-caviezel-monica-bellucci-not-in-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/115938\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Passion of the Christ’s Jim Caviezel, Monica Bellucci Not In Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAlthough the son of God is finally getting his long-awaited sequel, The Resurrection of Christ<\/a> will not feature the return of Mel Gibson<\/a>\u2018s original cast.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing their performances as Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene in The Passion of the Christ<\/a> (2004), Deadline can confirm that Jim Caviezel<\/a> and Monica Bellucci<\/a> will not reprise their role in the sequel, which is currently casting their replacements in Rome<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tPage Six<\/a> previously broke the news, citing scheduling conflicts and the need for digital de-aging to have the actors reprise their roles more than 20 years later.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn April, Caviezel anticipated returning as Christ in Resurrection. \u201cNow I get these bonus years and I had no idea [during the original film]. At the time, after I was done, it was done,\u201d he said on the Arroyo Grande<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAm I scared? Yes. But if I wasn\u2019t, I wouldn\u2019t want to work with that actor,\u201d noted Caviezel, adding: \u201cOf course I am, but that will never [go away] \u2026 but I was worried on the last one.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJim Caviezel in \u2018The Passion of the Christ\u2019 (2004) (Newmarket\/Courtesy Everett Collection)<\/p>\n

\n\tDeadline previously reported that Gibson\u2019s sequel will release in two parts<\/a> from Lionsgate<\/a> in 2027, with Part One debuting on Good Friday, March 26, 2027, and Part Two opening 40 days later on Ascension Day, Thursday, May 6, 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tPlot details for The Resurrection of the Christ are under wraps. Gibson\u2019s original film, starring Caviezel as Jesus, was a landmark title that up until last year held the record as the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time domestically. The film, portraying the last 12 hours of Christ\u2019s life, debuted to an opening weekend of $83 million on its way to taking in $370 million in North American theaters and more than $610 million globally off a $30 million production budget. It also garnered three Oscar nominations in the categories of Makeup, Cinematography and Original Score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although the son of God is finally getting his long-awaited sequel, The Resurrection of Christ will not feature…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,71283,1871,50488,327,71284,71285],"class_list":{"0":"post-115938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jim-caviezel","13":"tag-mel-gibson","14":"tag-monica-bellucci","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-the-passion-of-the-christ","17":"tag-the-resurrection-of-the-christ"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}