Mel Gibson is shooting a movie about the life and death of the crucified one. THE PASSION is supposed to be bloody gory and in Latin/Aramaic with no English subtitles. Sounds like the most uncommercial movie of 2004!

Jim Caviezel is Jesus in his last 12 hours and SATAN will be played by Rosalinda Celentano!!!

Must be hard being a catholic nowadays...

<<"To be certain, neither I nor my film is anti-Semitic," Gibson said in a statement to Daily Variety.

The statement comes after unholy attacks on the film from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, who claimed the movie painted both Catholics and Jews in an unflattering light.

Both groups got worried about the film's content after Gibson's extremely religious father (he adheres to a radical form of Catholicism disavowed by the Vatican) was interviewed by the New York Times Magazine in March, making some rash statements about religion and suggested that the Holocaust may never have taken place. Both groups then obtained an early edition script from the film and got up in arms about its portrayal of Jews and Catholics.

Gibson said the script was stolen, and the Catholic group has since recanted, apologizing for slamming an unfinished film and promising to return all the unauthorized copies of the script. "We regret that this situation has occurred and offer our apologies," Mark Chopko, general counsel for the Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a statement.>>

full story at Eonline.com

Harry Knowles got the trailer (directly right-click those 22 MB) in some way. Hm, Schwartzenegger should have played Jesus.

I wonder if there will be any action-figures...