April 2024 start date?

[Zotyto]

Martin Scorsese Meets Pope Francis, Announces Film About Jesus

variety.com/2023/film/global/martin-scorsese-pope-francis-film-about-jesus-1235627620/

"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 announced on Saturday during a Rome conference at the Vatican, according to multiple reports. "And I’m about to start making it," the director added, suggesting that this could be his next film.

[arnzilla]

When walking away, Scorsese said "I said WHAT??"

[arnzilla]

www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/6/rggurryxa4ydmokfnak4br9zhocpx1

[Zotyto]

The pope wrote the introduction to a book from Jesuit priest Antonio Spadaro. In his foreword the pope asked artists to spread the Gospel message to the world and to 'make us see Jesus', through images, poems, and so on. Scorsese responded by writing an essay about Jesus (and Jesus in film), in the form of a short (documentary) script. Maybe one day he'll actually film it, but I doubt this is going to be his next feature film.

If you want to read Scorsese's script, here's the link.
www.laciviltacattolica.com/a-divine-plot/

[arnzilla]

Thanks!

[leonevsscorsese]

www.joblo.com/a-life-of-jesus-martin-scorsese-film/

[arnzilla]

www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/01/23/martin-scorsese-catholic-film-killers-flower-moon-246994

I’m thinking in response to what Pope Francis wrote about and the idea of making Jesus accessible, not putting Jesus on a wall or in a painting or in a stained-glass window. Jesus immediate, with us now, right in the room as we speak. And dealing with the accessibility of who Jesus is and continues to be in our lives. Hence, I’m thinking of a film that might be partially modern day, partially ancient, I’m not quite sure. We’ve come up with a script, myself and [longtime collaborator] Kent Jones. I hope to be shooting some of it in April to get it going.

But it wouldn’t be a usual, straight narrative of the life of Jesus in any way. It would be something that makes us think of Jesus in the present. And in a different way, too. Some of it would be based on what Shūsaku Endō wrote in his bookA Life of Jesus. I thought it was really interesting how he comes about it from an Asian point of view to make us see Jesus in another way, and how it pertains to our lives now. And how it’ll always be something at the crux of our lives.