Martin Scorsese meets Pope Francis; announces his next project on Jesus Christ

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese has decided his next project will be on Jesus Christ. Following the premiere of Killers of the Flower Moon at the Cannes Film Festival 2023, the director and his wife Helen Morris met Pope Francis during a private audience at the Vatican. Following his meeting, he announced his next project at The Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination conference.

“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 announced on May 27 during a Rome conference, according to Variety. “And I’m about to start making it,” the director added, suggesting this would be his next movie.

As per the report, Scorsese’s Italian tour involves a series of screenings of his movies. He was present at Rome’s Casa del Cinema cinematheque. The report also says that the filmmaker will hold a “a master class on Tuesday for students of Rome’s Centro Sperimentale film school; and an onstage conversation on Friday in Bologna where he will be a guest of the Cineteca di Bologna, the film archives that run the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival dedicated to heritage film.”

Meanwhile, Killers of the Flower Moon is based on a true story and told through the improbable romance of Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone). It is an epic western crime saga, where real love crosses paths with unspeakable betrayal. Also starring Robert De Niro and Jesse Plemons, the movie is directed by Academy Award winner Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, based on David Grann’s best-selling book. The film will premiere exclusively in theatres beginning Friday, October 6 before streaming globally on Apple TV+.

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