{"id":25818,"date":"2023-06-05T10:44:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T14:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=25818"},"modified":"2023-06-05T10:44:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T14:44:44","slug":"martin-scorsese-discusses-his-upcoming-film-on-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/06\/martin-scorsese-discusses-his-upcoming-film-on-jesus.html","title":{"rendered":"Martin Scorsese Discusses His Upcoming Film on Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25824\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25824\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2023\/06\/martin-scorsese-credit-s-bukley-shutterstock-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25824\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2023\/06\/martin-scorsese-credit-s-bukley-shutterstock-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"martin scorsese\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">s_bukley\/Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On a post-Cannes tour of Italy, famed director Martin Scorsese met with Pope Francis and announced that he\u2019d make a movie about Jesus. \u201cThe Goodfellas\u201d director, who identifies as Catholic, visited Pope Francis at the Vatican during his tour of Italy after the premiere of his new film \u201cKillers of the Flower Moon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The famed filmmaker also attended a conference featuring dozens of writers and poets titled \u201cThe Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination.\u201d During the meeting, he said, \u201cI have responded to the Pope\u2019s appeal to artists in the only way I know how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus. And I\u2019m about to start making it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Italian author Antonio Spadaro, Pope Francis offered a word of encouragement to the writers. \u201cThis is your work as poets, storytellers, filmmakers, artists: to give life, to give body, to give word to everything that human beings live, feel, dream, suffer, creating harmony and beauty,\u201d Francis said, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antoniospadaro\/status\/1662421653404491778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1662421653404491778%7Ctwgr%5Edf80c3ca352c76f581a1030ee5f07f5645a76f4c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fvariety.com%2F2023%2Ffilm%2Fglobal%2Fmartin-scorsese-pope-francis-film-about-jesus-1235627620%2F\">tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cWill they criticize you? Carry the burden of criticism, but also try to learn from criticism. But still, don\u2019t stop being original and creative. Do not lose the wonder of being alive\u201d. Scorsese\u2019s representatives told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2023\/may\/29\/martin-scorsese-to-make-another-movie-about-jesus-he-announces-after-meeting-pope\">The Guardian<\/a>\u00a0they couldn\u2019t offer additional information about the movie.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uLU59scjiq0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scorsese and his wife, Helen, also held a brief private audience with Pope Francis before attending the conference. While speaking, Scorsese repeatedly referenced his films and offered personal stories. On his publication\u2019s website, Spadaro wrote that Scorsese spoke of \u201chow the Holy Father\u2019s appeal \u2018to let us see Jesus moved him.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scorsese also admired Pier Paolo Pasolini\u2019s 1964 movie \u201cThe Gospel According to St. Matthew.\u201d He also discussed his 1988 movie \u201cThe Last Temptation of Christ,\u201d which starred Willem Dafoe as Jesus. The famed director also explored religion in his 2016 drama \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/martin-scorsese-screening-christian-persecution-film-silence-vaticans-giant-crucifix.html\">Silence<\/a>,\u201d which focused on the persecution of Jesuit Catholics in 17th-century Japan. Scorsese previously met Francis during a screening of the film in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Scorsese\u2019s Italian tour also involved a series of screenings of his films, paired with works that have inspired his body of work, that he presented at Rome\u2019s Casa del Cinema cinematheque, a master class for students of Rome\u2019s Centro Sperimentale film school; and an onstage conversation in Bologna where he was a guest of the Cineteca di Bologna, the film archives that run the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival dedicated to heritage film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a post-Cannes tour of Italy, famed director Martin Scorsese met with Pope Francis and announced that he\u2019d make a movie about Jesus. \u201cThe Goodfellas\u201d director, who identifies as Catholic, visited Pope Francis at the Vatican during his tour of Italy after the premiere of his new film \u201cKillers of the Flower Moon.\u201d The 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