The legendary Hollywood director Martin Scorsese, who has previously made classics like Goodfellas and Taxi Driver, has just revealed that he is working on a new movie about Jesus Christ.
Martin Scorsese announced he’s making a film about Jesus after meeting with the Pope 👀‼️ pic.twitter.com/8ZFX1cqJuy
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Scorsese’s New Movie
Scorsese, 80, revealed this while visiting Pope Francis at the Vatican last weekend.
“I have responded to the Pope’s appeal to artists in the only way I know how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus,” Scorsese said during the meeting, according to Christian Post. “And I’m about to start making it.”
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The Pope reportedly responded by offering words of encouragement.
“This 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,” the Pope allegedly said. “Will they criticize you? All right, carry the burden of criticism, also trying to learn from criticism. But still, don’t stop being original, creative. Do not lose the wonder of being alive.”
Representatives for Scorsese told The Guardian that they had no further details to offer about his new film at this time.
Thank you to Martin #Scorsese for accepting the invitation to join us of La Civiltà Cattolica and Georgetown University – along with his wife and daughter – in the meeting of 40 poets and writers from different Countries with #PopeFrancesco, who said among other things, "This is… pic.twitter.com/yG6bEyo2Wq
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Scorsese’s Faith
Back in 2016, Scorsese said that while he does not go to church regularly, his “way has been, and is, Catholicism. After many years of thinking about other things, dabbling here and there, I am most comfortable as a Catholic.”
“I believe in the tenets of Catholicism. I’m not a doctor of the church. I’m not a theologian who could argue the Trinity. I’m certainly not interested in the politics of the institution,” he explained, according to National Catholic Reporter. “But the idea of the Resurrection, the idea of the Incarnation, the powerful message of compassion and love — that’s the key. The sacraments, if you are allowed to take them, to experience them, help you stay close to God.”
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When asked if he’s ever felt God’s presence, Scorsese replied, “When I was young and serving Mass, there was no doubt that there was a sense of the sacred.”
“At any rate, I remember going out on the street after the Mass was over and wondering: ‘How can life just be going on? Why hasn’t everything changed? Why isn’t the world directly affected by the body and blood of Christ?'” he continued. “That’s the way that I experienced the presence of God when I was very young.”
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Pope Gives Advice To Artists
Earlier this year, the Pope told Scorsese and other artists who are trying to tell the story of Jesus “not to ‘explain’ the mystery of Christ, which is ultimately unfathomable, but to enable us to touch him, to feel his closeness, to let us see him as alive and to open our eyes to the beauty of his promises. Because his promises appeal to our imagination: they help us to imagine in a new way our lives, our history and the future of humanity.”
“Continue to dream, to be restless, to conjure up words and visions that can help us interpret the mystery of human life and guide our societies toward beauty and universal fraternity,” he continued, according to America Magazine.
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) dir. Martin Scorsesepic.twitter.com/xnxrUVBzej
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Scorsese’s next project won’t be the first time that he has depicted Jesus on screen, as he previously directed The Last Temptation Of Christ back in 1988. We cannot wait to see how he portrays Jesus in his upcoming film, which will likely be coming out in a few years!
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You f*kn Pryk !
This is absolutely necessary at this time in earth’s history. The Second Coming is very near and populations on earth will do well to heed the foretold signs of Christ’s return to earth.
good to hear, let’s hope it’s a good one, and not tainted by the left wing perverts
No thank you. He’s Catholic and it will be a false gospel that leads people to hell. If you want the proof, go to podcasts and listen to Chris Pinto’s newest podcast, on Noise of Thunder. He left Catholicism a long time ago.
As Teddy used to say bully bully.
My guess is one of two things…either he’s feeling his mortality at his age, and as so many have and will do, is, of course, questioning his eternity and the innate sense God gave us all to seek Him eventually, and as such is exploring the landscape…or second is he is seeing all the money that other Christians films and t.v. series are making and wants his cut of that money. Not sure. But almost too little, too late for making an impact on most of the Hollywood crazies.
A distant forebear sibject to dna confirmation.