The Jesuit Scholar Who Translated ‘The Passion’

Nathan Bierma — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 20:00:26 +0000

Obscured by the furor surrounding Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" is one relatively mundane bit of trivia: Last week's debut marked the widest release ever of a subtitled film in North America. ... "I got a call while I was in Jerusalem: 'Hey, Padre, It's Mel, I got a job for you,'" Fulco said. "I said, `Mel who?' We talked for about an hour. He told me about the project, and I couldn't pass it up."

In 2002, Gibson gave Fulco the script written by Benedict Fitzgerald, mostly derived from the Gospels, and asked Fulco to translate it into Aramaic , Hebrew and Latin. Fulco later translated the script back into English subtitles.

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The Jesuit Scholar Who Translated ‘The Passion’