Pope Francis meets with director Martin Scorsese and his wife Helen Morris during a conference promoted by La Civilta Cattolica and Georgetown University at the Vatican, May 27, 2023. Photo: Reuters
American director Martin Scorsese, who had a private audience with Pope Francis recently, has announced that he is making another movie about Jesus Christ.The Last Temptation Of Christ,The movie was banned in Singapore as well as a number of other countries due to its content, which some people found to be blasphemous.
“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,” said Scorsese at a conference at the Vatican recently. He added that he was about to start making it. According to a report on entertainment portal Variety, Scorsese’s manager Rick Yorn did not respond to a request for comment regarding the new project., about the life and writings of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama; andSilence
in Rome and had his first meeting with the Pope, 86, who as a young man had joined the Jesuits in the hope of becoming a missionary in Japan. – The Straits Times/Asia News Network