Martin Scorsese is deep-diving into the biblical universe. The filmmaker has already announced he’s working on a film about Jesus and now he has announced that his next project is about saints.
Martin Scorsese is deep-diving into the biblical universe. The filmmaker has already announced he’s working on a film about Jesus and now he has announced that his next project is about saints.
According to reports, The Killers Of Flower Moon director will host, narrate and produce an eight-part docudrama called Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints. The docu-series will stream on Fox Nation, it was announced Wednesday.
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The series will follow the lives of eight men and women who have been beatified, including Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene and Maximilian Kolbe, a Franciscan friar who volunteered to die at Auschwitz to save the life of the father of a family.
The first four episodes of Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints will debut in November. The remaining four will air by May 2025.
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The Oscar winner, who briefly pursued becoming a priest before switching to filmmaking, told the Los Angeles Times in January that his next film would be an adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s book A Life of Jesus”.
(With agency inputs)
