After premiering his new movie 'Killers of the Flower Moon' at Cannes, the award-winning filmmaker meets with Pope Francis and confirms a big-screen project about Christ.
- May 31, 2023
AceShowbiz - Martin Scorsese will make a film about Jesus. After meeting with Pope Francis over the weekend on his post-Cannes tour of Italy, the legendary film director confirmed that he has a project in the pipeline about Christ.
"I have responded to the Pope's appeal to artists in the only way I know how, by imagining and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus," Scorsese said at a conference at the Vatican. The filmmaker added, "And I'm about to start making it."
Scorsese, 80, has previously been inspired by religion for his work as he made the 1988 movie "The Last Temptation of Christ" and "Silence" about Jesuit Christians in 2016.
The "Killers of the Flower Moon" director recently lamented how he had "no more time" to make movies due to his advancing years. Speaking to Deadline, Scorsese said, "I wish I could take a break for eight weeks and make a film at the same time. The whole world has opened up to me, but it's too late. It's too late. I'm old. I read stuff. I see things. I want to tell stories, and there's no more time."
Scorsese teams up with Leonardo DiCaprio for the sixth time in the new Western epic and believes that the "Titanic" star is a "natural film actor." He said, "What's great about Leo, and it's why we work together so often, is, he goes there."
"He goes to these weird places that are so difficult and convoluted, and through the convolution, somehow there's a clarity that we can reach. And usually it's in the expression, in his face, in his eyes. I've always told him this. He's a natural film actor."
