Martin Scorsese announces film on Jesus after meeting Pope Francis in Vatican

Entertainment: Veteran director Martin Scorsese, recently met Pope Francis on May 27, and a day later, the renowned director announced that he would be making a film on Jesus Christ.

“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,” Scorsese said in a conference held at the Vatican.

Earlier on Saturday, Scorsese and his wife Helen Morris had a brief meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican before attending the conference, which was headline The Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination.

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