Director Martin Scorsese has introduced that he will make a movie about Jesus Christ. Recently, Martin met Pope Francis and stated he is impressed to make a movie about Jesus. The filmmaker visited Italy after the premiere of his directorial, Killer of the Flower Moon, at the recently-concluded 2023 Cannes Film Festival. (Also Read | Killers of the Flower Moon teaser: Martin Scorsese film amps up the mystery and drama)
Martin talks about his movie on Jesus
The 80-year-old filmmaker and his spouse Helen Morris met Pope Francis throughout a transient personal viewers at the Vatican, final week.
As reported by The Guardian, Martin stated, “I have responded to the Pope’s enchantment to artists in the solely manner I understand how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a movie about Jesus. And I’m about to start making it.” Martin’s representatives advised The Guardian they’d no additional data on the undertaking.
The convention, titled The Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination, was organised by Jesuit publication La Civilta Cattolica and Georgetown University. As per information company PTI, at the convention, Martin additionally touched upon the that means of his 1988 epic The Last Temptation of Christ and of “the subsequent step in his analysis on the determine of Jesus” represented by his 2016 drama Silence about the persecution of Jesuit Christians in Seventeenth-century Japan.
Martin was at Cannes Film Festival 2023
Martin attended the movie competition the place his movie Killers of the Flower Moon acquired a lot admiration with a nine-minute-long standing ovation at its world premiere. The movie stars Robert De Niro, Leonardo Di Caprio, Lily Gladstone, and Jesse Plemons. Brendan Fraser and John Lithgow are additionally a part of the movie.
Based on a true story and advised by way of the romance between Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), Killers of the Flower Moon is an epic Western crime saga, the place actual love crosses paths with unspeakable betrayal, as per information company ANI. The movie is all set to hit the theatres on October 6.
Martin’s movies over the previous couple of many years
He has made a number of movies together with Taxi Driver, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Irishman, After Hours, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Age of Innocence, Kundun, Hugo and Silence amongst many others. Martin has additionally directed episodes for some tv collection together with Boardwalk Empire and Vinyl in addition to the docu-series Pretend It’s a City.