• Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese recently paid a visit to Pope Francis where he announced that he will be making a new movie about Jesus Christ.
• Scorsese made his intention to make another movie about Jesus Christ known while on his European tour to promote his films. According to the director, his desire to make a movie about Jesus stemmed from Pope Francis’ call for artists to use their gifts in service of the faith.
• “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, according to a rep.

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