Martin Scorsese meets with Pope Francis, announces plans to make a new film about Jesus
foxnews.comMove aside Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro – Pope Francis is famed director Martin Scorsese’s latest collaborator. On a European tour to promote his films, Scorsese announced his intention to make another movie about Jesus while at the Vatican. "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 per reports confirmed by his representative. "And I’m about to start making it," Scorsese shared.
Scorsese's rep told Fox News Digital they had no additional information on the project. Scorsese was accompanied by his wife, Helen Morris, at a conference promoted in partnership by a Jesuit publication, La Civiltà Cattolica and Georgetown Univeristy.
According to Antonio Spadaro, editor of the publication, Pope Francis told an audience of multiple creatives, "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....
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.
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