Martin Scorsese desires to play a task within the new film he’s making about Jesus Christ.
In an interview with Time Journal, Scorsese provided some new particulars concerning the new Jesus film he desires to make. Hinting that it could construct on related themes lined in 2016’s Silence starring Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver, Scorsese mentioned he plans to be within the film however didn’t elaborate any additional than that.
“I don’t know what it’s going to be, precisely. I don’t know what you’d name it. It wouldn’t be a straight narrative.” he mentioned. “However there can be staged scenes. And I’d be in it.”
Whereas Scorsese is finest identified for guiding motion pictures like Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, The Wolf of Wall Road, The Irishman, and lots of extra, he’s additionally acted in quite a few titles all through the course of his profession. He’s made cameo appearances in lots of his personal motion pictures, whereas he additionally performed meatier roles in 1990’s Desires and 1994’s Quiz Present, amongst others.
What’s Scorsese’s new Jesus film?
In Might 2023, Scorsese introduced he’s engaged on a brand new film about Jesus after he and his spouse Helen Morris privately met with Pope Francis on the Vatican.
“I’ve responded to the Pope’s attraction to artists in the one method I understand how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a movie about Jesus,” Scorsese mentioned on the time, per Selection. “And I’m about to start out making it.”
Additional particulars concerning the mission haven’t but been revealed. Scorsese beforehand made a film about Jesus, The Final Temptation of Christ, with Willem Dafoe in 1988. The director performed the function of the prophet Isaiah in The Final Temptation of Christ.
Scorsese’s newest, Killers of the Flower Moon, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Brendan Fraiser, and Jesse Plemons. The movie opens in america on October 20, 2023, earlier than debuting on Apple TV+ at a later date.