Italo-American director Martin
Scorsese told the Jesuits' international magazine in Rome
Saturday that he had decided to answer Pope Francis's recent
call to show Jesus to the cinema-gpoing public.
"I've responded to the appeal which the pope made to artists in
the only way I know how: imagining and writing a screenplay for
a film about Jesus, and I'm set to start making it," said the
80-year-old Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas director,
who made the controversial Last Temptation of Christ in 1988.
Speaking as a guest of twice-monthly Jesuit publication La
Civiltà Cattollica, Scorsese, who has Sicilian-born grandparents
on both sides, told editor-in-chief Father Antonio Spadaro:
"I've answered the pope's call to make us see Jesus".
The great director, who won an Oscar for The Departed in 2006,
spoke freely about his life and work for a major interview with
the Jesuit organ.
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