{"id":35267,"date":"2024-05-08T09:43:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T13:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=35267"},"modified":"2024-05-08T09:43:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T13:43:13","slug":"martin-scorseses-new-movie-about-jesus-might-feature-andrew-garfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2024\/05\/martin-scorseses-new-movie-about-jesus-might-feature-andrew-garfield.html","title":{"rendered":"Martin Scorsese’s New Movie About Jesus Might Feature Andrew Garfield"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Martin Scorsese’s new movie about Jesus might feature actor Andrew Garfield, who gained international recognition from his performance as Spider-Man in multiple films. According to Variety,<\/em> Scorsese plans to create an adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s 1973 book A Life of Jesus<\/em>, which may include a role for Garfield. The director hasn’t revealed whether Garfield would play Jesus, one of his disciples, or another character.<\/p>\n

This won’t be the first time Garfield and Scorsese have worked together for an adaptation collaboration, as the two teamed together for the 2016 movie “Silence,” in which he played a Jesuit missionary in Japan.\u00a0\u00a0In a 2017 interview with\u00a0Relevant<\/em>,<\/a>\u00a0Garfield detailed how he got ready to play the role by studying the Bible and meeting with priests to better grasp what it was like.\u00a0Garfield shared at the time, “What was really easy was falling in love with this person, was falling in love with Jesus Christ. That was the most surprising thing.”<\/p>\n

Scorsese noted that Miles Teller might make it in a role for the adaptation. The director hasn’t revealed if both actors will star in the film or if only one will make the cut.\u00a0Production for the new Jesus film is scheduled to start later this year.\u00a0\u00a0“I’m contemplating it right now,” the director said at the Berlin Film Festival,\u00a0Deadline\u00a0<\/a>reported in February. “What kind of film I’m not quite sure, but I want to make something unique and different that could be thought-provoking, and I hope also entertaining. I’m not quite sure yet how to go about it.”<\/p>\n