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Martin Scorseseis not slowing down.
After premieringKillers of the Flower Moonat the Cannes Film Festival on May 20, the legendary director, 80, took an extended trip around Italy and briefly met Pope Francis during a stop at the Vatican. Shortly after, he revealed he’s now inspired to do a film about Jesus.
PerVariety, Scorsese announced the news at a conference he attended in Rome called “The Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination.”
The project would not be the first time Scorsese has delved into themes of Catholicism. In 1988, he madeThe Last Temptation of Christand 2016’sSilencecentered onJesuit Christians.
Antonio Spadaro, an editor with the Jesuit publication that organized the event, thanked Scorsese for his visit in a detailedTwitterpost on Saturday.
“Thank you to Martin#Scorsesefor 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#PopeFrancescowho said among other things, ‘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…. Will they criticize you? All right, carry the burden of criticism, also trying to learn from criticism. But still, don’t stop being original, creative. Do not lose the wonder of being alive.'”
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He added, “There was lots of grass. I’m a New Yorker. I was very surprised. This was an amazing experience. We lived in that world.”
The film is an adaptation of David Grann’s 2017 bookKillers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.
Set in 1920s Oklahoma, the movie is about the serial killings of members of Osage Nation, who became wealthy because of the oil discovered on their land. The crimes were later dubbed the Reign of Terror.
source: people.com
