‘I’m going to make a movie about Jesus’: Scorsese announces his new project after Killers of the Flower Moon

‘I’m going to make a movie about Jesus’: Scorsese announces his new project after Killers of the Flower Moon

On Oct. 18, Assassins of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese’s new mural marks the Cannes Film Festival 2023. After impressing the Croisette, the artist flew to Rome to visit Pope Francis.

This is the second meeting between the sovereign pontiff and the director after the first interview in 2016 as part of the release of Silence. This film, which evokes persecuted Jesuit priests in 17th-century Japan, particularly touched Francis. Indeed, the latter is itself a part of this Catholic congregation. He is also the first Jesuit pope to join the order in hopes of becoming a missionary in the Land of the Rising Sun.

As part of this new meeting with the Holy Father, Martin Scorsese spoke about the subject of his new project: Jesus. “I responded to the Pope’s call to artists in the only way I know how: I imagined and wrote a script for a film about Jesus.”revealed the director of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, quoted variety.

At the press conference held in the Vatican, the film director added that he “I was about to realize” this project. Therefore, these words clearly indicate that Martin Scorsese will revisit the life of Jesus after the release of The Last Temptation of Christ in 1988.

This interview between Pope Francis and Martin Scorsese was organized by the Jesuit newspaper La Civiltà Cattolica and Georgetown University. Antonio Spadaro, the editor of the religious periodical, said Martin Scorsese would exchange his films and personal anecdotes with the sovereign pontiff. According to the filmmaker, the call of the Holy Father “Jesus see us” He was very moved.

During this meeting, the New York native was able to discuss his religious influences in cinema, namely Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew. Scorsese also returned to his major works on religion, The Last Temptation of Christ and The Silence.

“As soon as he touches the camera, Scorsese wants to film the life of Jesus”Michael Henry Wilson, author of a fascinating book of interviews with the director, emphasized. The figure of Christ overcame the entire career of the 80-year-old director, the latter always in deep search for spirituality (in particular, he entered a minor seminary when he was young to become a priest before giving up).

“I’ve always envied people who have unerring, complete faith. Some succeed. But as for me, I think faith is constantly sprinkled with doubt. “It’s constantly tested. full stop”He hammered our mic in November 2016 while promoting Silence.

After the Flower Moon Killers, “Marty” decides to offer a new story about the Messiah, a religious icon that has fascinated him since childhood. Meanwhile, Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio found themselves in front of the maestro’s camera in this historical fresco 3h30, which will be released on October 18.


Source: Allocine

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