After Meeting With Pope, Martin Scorsese Announces New Film About Jesus Christ

Over the weekend, esteemed director and Academy Award winner Martin Scorsese visited the Vatican and met with Pope Francis where he dropped the bombshell announcement that he’d be directing a new movie centered around Jesus Christ. 

The famed director is currently touring different film festivals throughout Europe to promote his upcoming movie ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ which stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. Scorsese and his wife both stopped by the Vatican for a conference that was promoted in partnership with a Jesuit publication named La Civilta Cattolica and Georgetown University, according to Fox News.

During this conference, Pope Francis told the audience of artists in attendance that they had a calling to give dignity to the human experience and show the wonder of life.

“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,” the pope reportedly said at the conference. “Will they criticize you? All right, carry the burden of criticism, also trying to learn from criticism. But still, don’t stop being original, and creative. Do not lose the wonder of being alive.”

It seemed like the message moved the long-time director, as following the group meeting he told a representative, “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.”

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The editor for La Civilta Cattolica, Antonio Spador, tweeted out about Scorsese accepting the invitation to the conference and how pleased he was to meet the long-time Hollywood filmmaker. 

“Thank you to Martin #Scorsese for accepting the invitation to join us of La Civiltà Cattolica and Georgetown University - along with his wife and daughter - in the meeting of 40 poets and writers from different Countries with #PopeFrancesco, who said among other things,” he wrote, finishing up the tweet with the aforementioned statement from the Pope. 
 

Thank you to Martin #Scorsese for accepting the invitation to join us of La Civiltà Cattolica and Georgetown University - along with his wife and daughter - in the meeting of 40 poets and writers from different Countries with #PopeFrancesco, who said among other things, "This is… pic.twitter.com/yG6bEyo2Wq

— Antonio Spadaro (@antoniospadaro) May 27, 2023

This would not be the first time the esteemed director dived into the religious genre, having directed 1988’s ‘The Last Temptation of Christ,’ which followed the struggles that Jesus experienced during his time on Earth. His second religious film, ‘Silence,’ follows “two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel[ing] to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism,” according to its IMDb page. 

Christian media seems to be making a major comeback as more producers and studios hop onto God-fearing projects. Many in the media continue to cater to a godless, hedonistic crowd, but it’s clear that Christian media will forever hold a place on the gold and silver screen.