Martin Scorsese about to start out making new movie about Jesus

Award-winning director Martin Scorsese says he’ll make one other film about Jesus, a comment made throughout a dialog on the Vatican.

“The Goodfellas” director, who identifies as Catholic, visited Pope Francis on the Vatican final weekend throughout his tour of Italy following the premiere of his new movie “Killers of the Flower Moon” on the Cannes Movie Pageant in France.

The 80-year-old filmmaker additionally participated in a convention organized by the Jesuit publication La Civiltà Cattolica and Georgetown College that includes dozens of poets and writers, according to La Civiltà Cattolica editor Antonio Spadaro. The convention was titled “The World Aesthetics of the Catholic Creativeness.”

“I’ve responded to the Pope’s enchantment to artists in the one method I understand how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a movie about Jesus,” Scorsese stated in the course of the assembly, in response to a number of stories. “And I am about to start out making it.”

In response to Spadaro, Francis supplied a phrase of encouragement to the writers. 

“That is your work as poets, storytellers, filmmakers, artists: to provide life, to provide physique, to provide phrase to every little thing that human beings reside, really feel, dream, endure, creating concord and wonder,” Francis stated, in response to a tweet from Spadaro. “Will they criticize you? All proper, carry the burden of criticism, additionally making an attempt to be taught from criticism. However nonetheless, do not cease being unique, inventive. Don’t lose the marvel of being alive”.

Representatives for Scorsese informed The Guardian that they could not provide extra details about the film at the moment.

Scorsese and his spouse, Helen Morris, held a short non-public viewers with Pope Francis on the Vatican earlier than attending the convention.

In talking on the convention, Scorsese reportedly referenced his personal movies and supplied private anecdotes. Spadaro wrote on his publication’s web site that Scorsese spoke of “how the Holy Father’s enchantment ‘to allow us to see Jesus’ moved him.”

Scorsese additionally reportedly expressed admiration for Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1964 film “The Gospel In response to St. Matthew.” He additionally spoke of his personal 1988 movie, “The Final Temptation of Christ,” which starred actor Willem Dafoe as Jesus.

The famed director additionally explored faith in his 2016 drama “Silence,” which targeted on the persecution of Jesuit Catholics in Seventeenth-century Japan. Scorsese beforehand met Francis throughout a screening of the movie in Rome. 

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