Martin Scorsese already has just a few concepts for his subsequent mission lined up — he may direct a Grateful Dead biopic with Jonah Hill or re-team with Leonardo DiCaprio on another David Grann adaptation. But it surely sounds just like the 80-year-old director could be setting his sights on one other film about considered one of his favourite topics: faith.
The auteur adopted his journey to Cannes — the place “Killers of the Flower Moon” premiered out of competitors to rapturous reviews — with a tour of Italy, the place he’s internet hosting screenings of a number of of his movies and conducting a grasp class for college students on the Centro Sperimentale movie college.
He additionally discovered time to go to the Vatican for a convention titled “The World Aesthetics of the Catholic Creativeness,” which noticed distinguished Catholic artists from around the globe discussing methods to discover religion of their work. Variety stories that Scorsese additionally had a non-public viewers with Pope Francis and introduced his plan to make a brand new movie about Jesus Christ on the occasion.
“I’ve responded to the Pope’s attraction to artists in the one manner I understand how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a movie about Jesus,” Scorsese stated at his press convention. “And I’m about to begin making it.”
Scorsese has directed three movies about faith — “The Final Temptation of Christ,” “Kundun,” and “Silence” — and touched on points of religion and spirituality in lots of different films. In a 2017 interview, he revealed that he as soon as got here shut to creating a movie about Jesus’ life that was set in New York Metropolis.
“The favored illustration of Jesus within the thoughts of the typical moviegoer was popping out of Cecil B. DeMille. Just about all movies made on spiritual subject material have been biblical epics. And the very best one, in fact, was Pasolini’s ‘Gospel In response to St. Matthew,’” he stated. “My authentic concept was within the early ‘60s. I had realized you can begin making movies with 16-millimeter black-and-white, due to John Cassavetes doing ‘Shadows,’ and I had a dream that I may perhaps make a movie sometime. And instantly I considered making a movie of the Gospel, however set on the Decrease East Aspect, within the tenements, in trendy costume. And the crucifixion could be on the West Aspect docks, and in black-and-white.”
