Watch: Four new TV spots, behind-the-scenes footage and a new featurette linking Risen to The Passion of the Christ

It’s going to be a very Risen-heavy week here at FilmChat. The film, which stars Joseph Fiennes and Tom Felton as two Roman officers who go looking for the body of Jesus, opens next Friday, with advance screenings in some cities on Thursday night — so the studio is releasing new promotional videos on an almost daily basis.

The newest video is this featurette that links Risen to The Passion of the Christ via Steven Mirkovich, who edited Risen and supervised The Passion Recut (i.e. the less-violent version of The Passion that Mel Gibson hoped would be rated PG-13, but wasn’t in the end; Risen, at least, was successful in getting a PG-13 rating):

Then there are the 30-second TV spots, of which we have four so far.

‘Vanished’ — which quotes various journalists who sing the film’s praises — begins by noting that Risen is being released by “the studio that brought you War Room and Heaven Is for Real,” easily the biggest “faith-based” hits of the past decade:

Then there is ‘Believe’ …

… ‘Different’ …

… and ‘Triumph Review’, which also quotes “critics”:

Finally, here is a 15-minute collection of behind-the-scenes footage, roughly a third of which concerns the opening battle scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlriMsIu2TI

Check out earlier Risen trailers and other videos here:

• The first trailer (April 29, 2015)
• The second trailer (August 28, 2015)
• The second trailer with updated release date (November 5, 2015)
• The ‘Clavius’ Journey’ and ‘Key Leaders’ featurettes (December 10, 2015)
• The ‘On Set & Behind the Scenes of RISEN’ featurette (December 15, 2015)
• The ‘Pastor Craig Groeschel On Why RISEN Makes An Impact’ featurette (January 13, 2016)
• The first 15-second social-media video (January 18, 2016)
• The ‘Claims to Be the Messiah’, ‘It Is Finished’, ‘Secure the Tomb’, ‘The Body Is Gone’, ‘Perhaps It’s True’, ‘What Made You Follow Him?’ and ‘Sweat and Herbs’ clips, the early junket interviews with Joseph Fiennes and Cliff Curtis, and the second 15-second social-media video (January 29, 2016)
• The ‘From Script To Screen, Filmmakers Discuss The Making of RISEN’ featurette (February 2, 2016)
• The ‘Joseph Fiennes & Maria Botto Visit the Vatican’ featurette (February 4, 2016)
• The HIS Radio, CBN, Mimi Geerges and Wish TV interviews (February 8, 2016)
• The ‘Confrontation in the Canyon’ clip (February 9, 2016)
• The Regal Cinemas featurette and the Mary Magdalene interrogation clip (February 10, 2016)
• The ‘Q&A in Rome’ video (February 11, 2016)