Martin Scorsese: After 35 years, he finds his favorite character… with an unexpected actor

To say we’ve been waiting for this for a long time doesn’t really do justice to the excitement that Assassins of the Moon generates. whose performance was not affected by the months-long writers’ and actors’ strike in the United States.

Martin Scorsese will return on October 18. And in cinema, for the first time since 2016 and Silence, the Irishman went straight to Netflix.

Inspired by David Grann’s book of the same name, Killers of the Flower Moon reunites two of his favorite actors (Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio) in front of his camera for the first time. And the story focuses on the murders that took place in the Osage tribe in Oklahoma in the 1920s. what’s next

After presenting his new film at the Cannes Film Festival, the filmmaker went to Rome to meet the Pope. And at the same time announced one of his next projects: a feature film about the life of Jesus.

the second in his career, after The Last Temptation of Christ, the release of which was notably marked by the bombing of a Paris cinema by Catholic fundamentalists.

It is too early to know what the approach of this new version will be. And Martin Scorsese himself doesn’t seem to have quite figured it out yet: “I don’t know exactly what it will be.”he declares timewho dedicated the latest front page to it. “I don’t know what you’d call it.”

“It won’t be a linear story. But there will be set pieces. And I’ll be in it.” Should we expect a film at the intersection of documentary and fiction, in which he portrays a narrator or speakers? A feature film in which he will play an actual role?

Or a simple cameo from him, as in several of his films, including Taxi Driver, The Aviator and Hugo Cabret? Since Martin Scorsese isn’t sure he knows it himself, we’ll have to be patient. But the release of Killers of the Flower Moon should help.