Martin Scorsese to direct a film on Jesus Christ; announces project after meeting Pope Francis

Veteran filmmaker Martin Scorsese is all set to direct a movie on Jesus Christ. He made the announcement a day after meeting Pope Frances in the Vatican City. During a police conference, Scorsese said his declaration was in response to the ‘Pope’s appeal to artists’.

‘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,’ the director said, reported entertainment outlet Variety.

Martin Scorsese and his wife Helen Morris met Pop Francis during a brief private audience on May 27. He later attended the conference titled ‘The Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination’. At the conference, the filmmaker also talked about the meaning of his 1988 epic ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ and of ‘the subsequent step in his research on the figure of Jesus’ represented by his 2016 drama ‘Silence’ about the persecution of Jesuit Christians in 17th-century Japan.

Martin Scorsese, who is known for having a religious bent, is on a post-Cannes tour of Italy.

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