Martin Scorsese's next project will be about Jesus, the legendary filmmaker hinted following a moving personal meeting with Pope Francis
Martin Scorsese’s nextThe 80-year-old director had a private audience with the Pope on Saturday, later explaining that the “Holy Father’s appeal ‘to let us see Jesus’ acted in him” and he feels compelled to honor that request.
“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. And I’m about to start making it,” Scorsese said during a moderated talk at The Vatican,
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