Martin Scorsese Gives Update On Life Of Jesus Project: “I Am Contemplating It Right Now. I Want To Make Something Unique & Different” – Berlinale
deadline.comMartin Scorsese revealed he is still mulling how to tackle the life of Jesus on the big screen, at a press conference at the Berlin Film Festival where he will receive its honorary Golden Bear on Tuesday evening. “I’m contemplating it right now.
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,” he said. Scorsese first revealed that he wanted to make a film about the life of Jesus while attending Pope Francis’s Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination conference at the Vatican last May.
A recent L.A. Times article suggested that he had completed a screenplay adapted from the book A Life Of Jesus by Shūsaku Endō, who was also the author of historical missionary tale Silence which Scorsese brought to the big screen in 2016.
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