The follow-up to Gibson's film has been in development since 2016, and could begin production a decade later in 2026.
“I’m hoping next year sometime. There’s a lot required because it’s an acid trip,” he said, adding that he’d “never read anything like” the script, which Gibson’s been writing alongside Randall Wallace.
“My brother and I and Randall all sort of congregated on this. So there’s some good heads put together, but there’s some crazy stuff,” Gibson continued. “And I think in order to really tell the story properly you have to really 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 director went on to reveal the working title for the film: The Resurrection of the Christ.
Gibson previously told the National Catholic Register that the film's sequel was "not a linear narrative" in a 2022 interview.
“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 out there," Gibson said.
