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Martin Scorsese confirms he is 'about to start making' a movie about Jesus: 'I have responded to the Popes appeal'..
Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese recently met Pope Francis in Italy..
After their meeting, Martin announced that he will start making a film about Jesus...
As reported by The Guardian, Martin said, "I have responded to the Popes appeal to artists in the only way I know how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus..
As per news agency PTI, at the conference, Martin also touched upon the meaning of his 1988 epic The Last Temptation of Christ and of "the subsequent step in his research on the figure of Jesus" represented by his 2016 drama Silence about the persecution of Jesuit Christians in 17th-century Japan.. Martin was at Cannes Film Festival 2023..
