After meeting with Pope Francis: Martin Scorsese wants to produce film about Jesus

After meeting with Pope Francis
Martin Scorsese wants to make a film about Jesus

Martin Scorsese (middle) with his wife at the meeting with the Pope.

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Martin Scorsese visited the Vatican. Not only did he meet Pope Francis, he also announced a film about Jesus.

Martin Scorsese (80) attended the conference on the aesthetics of Catholic imagination in the Vatican last weekend. The director, screenwriter and producer is said to have promised a film about Jesus. As reported by “Variety” among other things, he is said to have explained to those present: “I responded to the Pope’s appeal to artists in the only way I know of: by thinking up and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus.” He is already in the process of starting production, the director added, hinting that it could be his next film.

With family in Rome

The conference was organized by the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica and Georgetown University. Pope Francis (86) is said to have met the participants, as did Scorsese, who visited the Vatican with his wife Helen Morris and daughter Francesca, as did Antonio Spadaro, editor of the religious magazine, in a tweet explained.

Born in New York, Martin Scorsese actually wanted to be a priest, but this did not work out after he was expelled from the Jesuit school. Instead, in 1960, he enrolled to study cinematography at New York University, paving the way for Hollywood. To this day he is considered a devout Catholic. His newly announced film about Jesus would not be the director’s first project about religion and Jesus. “The Last Temptation of Christ” from 1988 provoked angry protests among conservative Christians.

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