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Iconic filmmaker Martin Scorsese has announced that he is hard at work on his next film, a project about the life of Jesus. The Oscar winner has revealed that he met Pope Francis during his Italian tour, shortly after he participated in the Cannes Film Festival, where he presented the long-awaited Western with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro Killers of the Flower Moon.
“I responded to the Pope's call to artists the only way I know how: by imagining and writing a script for a film about Jesus,” Scorsese said at a Vatican conference. “And I'm about to start making it,” he concluded, without giving much more information about it.
Speaking of the visit, Antonio Spadaro, director of the newspaper La Civiltà Cattolica, which organized the event, revealed that the director spoke at length about his films and various personal anecdotes, as well as his relationship with Christianity. One of the films he focused on was The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), by Scorsese himself and starring Willem Dafoe as Jesus. Other projects that were touched upon include Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Gospel According to Matthew (1964) and Silence (2016), also by Scorsese.
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Martin Scorsese will stop in Rome and Bologna to meet the public during the screenings of some of his masterpieces. The Maestro del Cinema is expected in Italian cinemas on October 19 with Killers of the Flower Moon, the raw and mysterious western with Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jesse Plemons, Lily Gladstone, and Brendan Fraser. Directed by Martin Scorsese, and co-written by the same director with Eric Roth (Dune, Forrest Gump), Killers of the Flower Moon is based on the acclaimed best-seller of the same name by David Grann, a story of love and betrayal, in a gripping intrigue to uncover the truth.
Source: Variety
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