{"id":813596,"date":"2026-05-22T02:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/813596\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T02:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:37:13","slug":"mel-gibsons-resurrection-of-the-christ-unveils-first-look-at-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/813596\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’ Unveils First Look at Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLionsgate is shifting its plans for its two-part sequel to The Resurrection of Christ. The studio is pushing part one back a few months from March 26, 2027, to May 6, 2027. And the second part, previously set<\/a> for May 6, 2027, is now moving back a year to May 25, 2028.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith the news comes the first-look photo of Jaakko Ohtonen as Jesus Christ, stepping into the sandals<\/a> worn by Jim Caviezel in The Passion of the Christ, the Gibson-directed religious blockbuster released in 2004. It earned more than $610 million globally and stands as the top-grossing indie movie of all time.<\/p>\n

\n\tStars of Resurrection, which just wrapped production, include Mariela Garriga, Pier Luigi Pasino, Kasia Smutniak, Riccardo Scamarcio and Rupert Everett.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is far more than a film to me. It\u2019s a mission I\u2019ve carried for over 20 years to tell what I believe is the most important story in human history,\u201d said Gibson in a statement.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs part of its date shifts, Lionsgate has slotted the Johnny Depp starrer Daydrinker for March 26, 2027. The film was the first Hollywood movie to cast Depp in the years following his acrimonious divorce from Amber Heard. He has since been tapped to star in a Scrooge movie at Paramount.<\/p>\n

\n\tDaydrinker centers on a private yacht bartender (Madelyn Cline) who meets a mysterious guest (Depp), with the duo becoming entangled with a criminal figure (Pen\u00e9lope Cruz). The Amazing Spider-Man filmmaker Marc Webb is behind the project, which has a script from Zach Dean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionsgate is shifting its plans for its two-part sequel to The Resurrection of Christ. The studio is pushing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":813597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[207,171,63564,330429,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-813596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-box-office","tag-entertainment","tag-mel-gibson","tag-resurrection-of-the-christ","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}