By India McCarty
Bad news: we’re going to have to wait until 2028 for Part Two of Mel Gibson’s RESURRECTION OF THE CHRIST series.
“Lionsgate has shifted the release dates of Mel Gibson’s THE RESURRECTION OF THE CHRIST, with Part One now set to arrive on May 6, 2027 (Ascension Day), and Part Two on May 25, 2028 (Ascension Day and Memorial Day weekend),” Deadline reported. “The previous dates were March 26, 2027 (Good Friday) for Part One, with Part Two slated to open just 40 days later on Ascension Day, May 6, 2027.”
The outlet reported that Lionsgate “felt the original dates were too close together given the scale of the productions,” adding, “Opening on Ascension Day makes sense for both films and each becomes part of the prime summer box office window.”
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Lionsgate is completely behind Gibson’s work on the movies, with Adam Fogelson, chair of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, saying, “Mel is a true visionary with an artist’s eye for scale and a storyteller’s instinct for emotional truth.”
“Every image we’ve seen from set feels like a masterwork painting brought to life,” he continued. “There are very few directors who can operate at this level of epic spectacle while at the same time delivering such depth and conviction. Mel has crafted a film of extraordinary ambition that audiences worldwide have been waiting to experience for over 20 years.”
In a statement obtained by Variety, Gibson added, “I’m deeply grateful to my incredibly talented cast and crew for pouring their hearts into this production. Together, we created something powerful.”
“This film represents a major part of my life’s work, and it has demanded everything of me as a filmmaker and as an artist. This is far more than a film to me. It’s a mission I’ve carried for over twenty years to tell what I believe is the most important story in human history,” he continued. “Reuniting with many of my original collaborators from THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST — true masters of their craft — allowed us to bring this story to the screen exactly as I envisioned it, with the tremendous support of my longtime partners, Adam and the team at Lionsgate.”
In a 2022 interview, Gibson explained that the pair of movies cover “a huge subject, and it’s not a linear narrative.”
“You have to juxtapose the central event that I’m trying to tell with everything else around it in the future, in the past and in other realms, and that’s kind of getting a little sci-fi,” he said.
Audiences around the world can’t wait to see Gibson’s vision brought to the big screen!
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