Jim Caviezel to play Jair Bolsonaro in ‘heroic’ biopic | Biopics
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, currently in prison for plotting a coup, is getting the biopic treatment.
Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus in Mel Gibson’s 2004 film The Passion of the Christ, reportedly secretly filmed a “heroic” portrait of the former right-wing politician. Dark Horse, directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh and written by Mário Frias, who served as minister of culture during the Bolsonaro administration. I started shooting Three months ago, in Brazil, where Bolsonaro serves as president from 2019 to 2023. In September 2025, he was sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison for leading a criminal conspiracy to stop his left-wing rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from coming to power; but his supporters deny the allegations and compare the prosecution to the “law” Donald Trump allegedly faced before his re-election.
The plot, which included an assassination plan for Lula and his deputy, collapsed when military chiefs refused to participate. The court found that Bolsonaro and six of his accomplices were trying to “destroy” Brazilian democracy and turn Latin America’s largest democracy into a dictatorship.
Frias began posting clips from the project on Monday, showing Caviezel in a Bolsonaro costume. The film also stars Lynn Collins and Esai Morales, and production will be completed in Mexico and the USA in 2026.
Bolsonaro’s son Carlos approved The film’s presence in X is that Caviezel posted a photo of himself in costume as his father. He wrote of Caviezel: “I know that your legacy will continue to be admired by good people and envied by those who seek destruction; but with every step you take, the message you leave leaves its mark on the world.”
Based on leaks unofficial first lookThe film appears to focus on Bolsonaro’s 2018 presidential campaign, with an emphasis on his military background. At the time, the disgraced and controversial former president faced international outrage for saying Brazil’s Indigenous people were “increasingly becoming human beings just like us.” Or rather, the death of his son in a car accident. Rather than being gay, among many other racist, homophobic and misogynistic statements.
Following his ’90s breakthrough and early films such as The Thin Red Line and Frequency, and The Passion of the Christ, Caviezel repositioned himself as a representative of Christian Hollywood and the conservative right. He appeared at several Q-Anon-affiliated events and a podcast with Trump ally Steve Bannon to promote the 2023 film Sound of Freedom, which some criticized for Q-Anon’s paranoia about child sex trafficking. He also appeared on Maga figure Mike Lindell’s TV channel, among others. right-wing media views.
The actor is also an open supporter of Donald Trump and is endorsing him in 2024. refer to he called him “The New Moses”.
Caviezel would last appear in The Resurrection of Christ, the sequel to Gibson’s 2004 film. When the director could not find an adequate way to digitally de-age her, she was re-cast.
Bolsonaro began serving his 27-year sentence last month in a room the size of a parking lot in the capital Brasília.
