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Overview
- Principal photography has started in Rome on A Ressurreição de Cristo, the follow-up to the 2004 film.
- Jaakko Ohtonen will portray Jesus and Mariela Garriga will play Mary Magdalene, replacing Jim Caviezel and Monica Bellucci.
- Kasia Smutniak is set as Mary, Pier Luigi Pasino as Peter, and Riccardo Scamarcio as Pontius Pilate, with Rupert Everett attached in an undisclosed role.
- Production sources told Variety the switch to new leads was made to avoid the high cost and complexity of digital rejuvenation.
- The release is planned in two parts on March 26 and May 6, 2027, and the casting changes have drawn negative reactions from some fans.