Martin Scorsese about to start making new film about Jesus.
Director Martin Scorsese attends the premiere of 'Silence' in Hollywood, California on Jan. 5, 2017.Reuters(CP) Award-winning director Martin Scorsese says he will make another movie about Jesus, a remark made during a conversation at the Vatican.
"The Goodfellas" director, who identifies as Catholic, visited Pope Francis at the Vatican last weekend during his tour of Italy following the premiere of his new film "Killers of the Flower Moon" at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
The 80-year-old filmmaker also participated in a conference organized by the Jesuit publication La Civiltà Cattolica and Georgetown University featuring dozens of poets and writers, according to La Civiltà Cattolica editor Antonio Spadaro. The conference was titled "The Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination." CT.
