Mel Gibson says he might shoot the sequel to The Passion of the Christ "next year"

He also says The Resurrection of the Christ will be a time-jumping “acid trip” that goes from “the fall of the angels to the death of the last apostle.”

Mel Gibson and Jim Caviezel on the set of The Passion of the Christ (2004).

Mel Gibson appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast last week to promote his newest directorial effort Flight Risk (which comes out January 24), and along the way he talked about his plans for the long-gestating sequel to The Passion of the Christ.

He didn’t say much about the sequel that’s new—not if you’ve been following the subject for as long as I have—but he did come back to it a few times over the course of the 140-minute interview, and what he said about it was interesting.

Here are the key quotes, with timecodes (if you want to jump to the relevant bits to hear them for yourself) and a few comments of my own: