Oh God, Mel Gibson Is Still Threatening To Make a ‘Passion of the Christ’ Sequel

Getting my mother to go to the movies has always been a difficult process. She likes the same seven films and will (mostly) only watch them (usually because they contain some emotional significance, but that’s not a hard and fast rule). We went as a family to see The Mummy Returns and she walked out in the first ten minutes to sit in the mall foodcourt until we were done (not a good movie but there was a whole mall for her to explore!). Also, she sat for all of Rob Zombie’s Halloween (the original being one of her seven faves) but I digress.

My mother is a good old-fashioned guilt-ridden Catholic, so you better believe we went and saw The Passion of the Christ within its first week of release. Hell, we may have gone opening weekend. It elicited the desired reaction, my mother cried because she ached for this man’s pain, recreated in a gruesome fashion. We kids cried because we were bored as s***, and didn’t care about this big-budget Bible lesson that a week later South Park would teach me was anti-Semitic (I was 14). We’d later find out that its director was an antisemite as well! Who’d a thunk it?!

Mel Gibson’s fall from grace in Hollywood was monumental. He’s surely not the only man in Hollywood who behaves how he behaves, but he was caught on tape more than once spouting racist and antisemitic garbage, and entertainment industry folks can only ignore that once, not twice! Nevertheless, he’s slowly but surely wormed his way back into the town’s good graces (despite calling Kamala Harris a “low IQ individual” earlier this year). Gibson has starred in and directed movies, one of which stars Mark Wahlberg and releases in two weeks. But he’s got one white whale he’s still chasing.

Gibson had his directorial return with Hacksaw Ridge back in 2016 because that was a good year for racists. I’m sure he had mentioned a sequel to The Passion of the Christ before then, but it makes sense that he would reignite the push amid his Oscar-nominated return!! The Passion of the Christ made stupid money and allowed him to wear his hatred on his sleeve. He’s still pushing that idea, as he recently brought it up on a Joe Rogan sitdown that surprisingly remained under three hours.

“I’m hoping next year sometime. There’s a lot required because it’s an acid trip. I’ve never read anything like it,” he told ole Joe. The actor and bigot then went on to muse how the film would have to involve the fall of the angels (because duh) and take place on a different plane of existence. I don’t know if any of that will appeal to my mother, but have at it, Mel. He noted that he may not be up to the task, but it sounds like a bunch of fake humbleness.

While Gibson has threatened people with this film for a while, it may finally be time for him to get it off the ground. People seem to be treating the recent election as a sign that most folks are okay with kowtowing to s***heads. But I hope Gibson does do his “Acid Trip” resurrection movie. It sounds dumb as hell and I look forward to a bunch of far-right idiots tying themselves into knots to explain why it’s good.