Jim Caviezel starring in Bolsonaro biopic as son of jailed president launches 2026 campaign

A biopic astir Brazil’s jailed erstwhile president Jair Bolsonaro is successful production, his lad Carlos has confirmed.

In a station shared connected X — which came aft his brother, Flavio entered the country's 2026 statesmanlike contention — Carlos lavished praise connected American histrion Jim Caviezel, who stars arsenic the ex-president successful the film.

"Jim Caviezel, convey you for everything," Carlos wrote, describing the Passion of the Christ histrion arsenic a fig whose bequest would beryllium "admired by bully radical and envied by those who question destruction."

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Carlos added that moving with Caviezel had fixed him "one of the top gifts" of his life, earlier closing with: "God, Jesus and Freedom."

Caviezel himself has been linked to far-right conspiracy circles successful the U.S. and has drawn scrutiny implicit the governmental messaging successful immoderate of his roles.

He besides famously starred arsenic Jesus successful Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and The Sound of Freedom.

According to The Guardian, the biopic, titled Dark Horse, presents a heroic imaginativeness of Jair Bolsonaro and is based connected Bolonaro’s palmy 2018 run for the presidency.

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Jim Caviezel speaks connected signifier during Beyond Sport United - Workshops & Panels astatine Yankee Stadium connected June 11, 2014 successful the Bronx borough of New York City.  ( D Dipasupil/Getty Images)

It is directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh and written by erstwhile Bolsonaro Culture Secretary Mário Frias.

Bolsonaro himself remains successful situation aft receiving a 27-year condemnation for attempting to overturn the 2022 predetermination results.

Authorities said helium orchestrated a crippled to invalidate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory, starring to his imprisonment successful September.

In summation to his sentence, a abstracted ruling has barred him from holding bureau until 2030, efficaciously ending his governmental career.

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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the media astatine the Federal Senate successful Brasília, Brazil July 17, 2025. (Reuters)

From prison, the erstwhile president issued a uncommon nationalist endorsement naming Flávio arsenic his preferred successor.

According to the Associated Press, Flávio, 44, has confirmed done his Senate bureau that helium volition tally successful the October 2026 statesmanlike predetermination against the campaigner of the Liberal Party.

Flávio, who is the eldest of the brothers, described his determination to tally arsenic "irreversible," mounting up a nonstop situation to President Lula, who is seeking a 4th nonconsecutive term.

"It is with large work that I corroborate the determination of Brazil’s top governmental and motivation leader, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, to entrust maine with the ngo of continuing our nationalist project," Flávio wrote connected X.

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Senator Flávio Bolsonaro has entered the 2026 Brazilian statesmanlike contention aft father's situation endorsement. (Evaristo Sa / AFP via Getty Images)

His bureau besides confirmed helium has visited his begetter successful prison.

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Meanwhile, accumulation connected Dark Horse is expected to proceed into 2026, with filming planned successful some Brazil and Mexico.