Actor Jim Caviezel is currently in cinemas with the child trafficking drama “Sound of Freedom” which he’s been out promoting.
The film, targeted at faith-based audiences, made headlines this week for earning a massive opening day on July 4th of $11.5 million in direct box-office sales along with an additional $2.6 million in sales tied to a crowdfunding platform.
It’s one of the biggest faith-based film success stories to date, and nearly up there with the biggest success of all in that genre – Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” which made $612 million on a budget of $30 million.
Nearly two decades on, Gibson still hasn’t managed to get the proposed sequel dubbed “The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection” into production despite years of development.
Appearing on The Shawn Ryan Show recently, Caviezel spoke about where the sequel stands and revealed that he thinks it will be split into multiple films:
“I asked him [Gibson] would you be ready to go in January, he said ‘yeah, maybe.’ I said, ‘How about the end of fall,’ he said, ‘Yeah, maybe.’ So who knows…. it might be two films, maybe three, but I think it’s two.”
The film was originally reported to start filming this spring but now looks to have been pushed back to the Fall instead, with Caviezel is set to reprise his role as Jesus Christ.
This follows on from comments Gibson made a few months to Outstanding Screenplays where he said he and co-writer Randall Wallace have two scripts for the project with one of them “very structured and very strong” and more along the lines of expectations.
The other, however, is “like an acid trip” going to other realms, visiting hell, watching angels falling, etc., and Gibson says: “It’s like crazy.”
