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Martin Scorsese revealed he is still mulling how to tackle the life of Jesus on the big screen, at a press conference at the Berlin Film Festival where he will receive its honorary Golden Bear on Tuesday evening.
“I’m contemplating it right now. What kind of film I’m not quite sure, but I want to make something unique and different that could be thought-provoking and I hope also entertaining. I’m not quite sure yet how to go about it,” he said.
Scorsese first revealed that he wanted to make a film about the life of Jesus last while attending Pope Francis’s Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination conference at the Vatican last May.
He told the press conference that he hoped to resume work on the project once the promotions and awards tour for Killers Of The Flower Moon was completed.
“Maybe I’ll get some sleep and then wake up and I’ll have this fresh idea of how to do it,” he said.
“The possibilities of making a film, the concept of Jesus, the idea of Jesus really stems from my background growing up in the Lower East Side, my interest in Catholicism, in the priesthood, which really led I think, ultimately to the film Silence,” he said.
He revealed that the 2016 film, about Jesuit missionaries in Japan, had in turn connected him with the Pope, who belongs to the Jesuit order.
“That was viewed by the Vatican and so I met the Pope a couple of times based on that and at one point in a meeting he also talked about fresher ways of thinking about of Christianity, the essentials of it. I’m always interested in that.”
