Screenwriter Randall Wallace revealed that he received an unusual warning from Mel Gibson before he began working on the sequel to The Passion of the Christ.
Wallace made the revelation during a recent appearance on an episode of the Arroyo Grande podcast, hosted by journalist Raymond Arroyo.
According to Wallace, the director said that “evil forces” would come after him if the project about the resurrection of Jesus Christ moved forward, emphasizing the spiritual significance he attributed to the film.
After a moment of silence, the director replied that the film could not be made for money or as a way of retaliating against criticism, but rather for a greater purpose.
“Are you ready to do this?” Gibson reportedly asked the screenwriter, who remembers replying: “Mel, he has been after me my whole life. Let’s do it.”
Wallace said that, at the time, he took the comment with good humor, but now views the statement differently. According to him, developing the project required years of collaboration between himself, Mel Gibson and Donal Gibson, the filmmaker’s brother.
“We knew that telling the story of the Resurrection was not simply about describing what happened on Earth, but what was happening in the spiritual realm that human eyes could not see,” Wallace argued.
The sequel, titled The Resurrection of the Christ, recently completed filming and will be released in two parts, with premieres scheduled for 2027 and 2028. Gibson has previously described the production as a personal mission that he has been developing for more than two decades.
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