Addressing the long gap between the release of “The Passion of the Christ” and its sequel, Gibson said that it took him roughly eight years to write the script, because “it’s a very complex and almost impossible to understand subject, so that necessarily you have to underpin it with a great deal of all of salvation history and theology.”
“It was a very difficult thing to find and synthesize, because you have to understand, firstly, why it had to happen. And to understand something like that, you have to think, like, why is mankind so important in this process,” Gibson said. “Why are the big realms of good and evil slugging it out for the hearts, minds, and souls of mankind?”
Speaking to Raymond Arroyo earlier this year, Gibson went as far as to say that the two-decade gap between the films is “perfect,” because “I’ve had all these things taken and it sort of frees me up to not worry about that stuff and just move ahead and do what I’m being called to do.”
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“And I’m being called to do it. I don’t even know why it’s the right time, but I think it is,” Gibson added.
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