Hollywood legend Martin Scorsese met Pope Francis over the weekend and stated he’s impressed to make a movie about Jesus.
In accordance with leisure information outlet Selection, the 80-year-old cinema icon and his spouse Helen Morris met Pope Francis throughout a short personal viewers on the Vatican on Saturday. .
“I’ve responded to the Pope’s enchantment to artists in the one approach I understand how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a movie about Jesus. And I am about to start out making it,” Scorsese stated throughout the World Aesthetics of the Catholic Creativeness convention on the Vatican.
The convention was organized by Jesuit publication La Civilta Cattolica and Georgetown College.
The filmmaker was visiting Italy after the premiere on his directorial enterprise Killers of the Flower Moon on the lately concluded Cannes Movie Competition. The movie options Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone and Jesse Plemons.
