Martin Scorsese, after his film “Killers of the Flower Moon” premiered, went to Rome to talk about the worldwide aesthetics of the Catholic imagination.
In response to Pope Francis’s request, Scorsese conceived up and wrote the screenplay for a movie on Jesus. The event was arranged by the Jesuit journal “La Civiltà Cattolica” after a sequence of private discussions with Scorsese, which were later published in Italy in a book entitled “Dialoghi sulla fede.”
Scorsese’s final chapter, “Screenplay for a Possible Film on Jesus,” is an early draft sent to Kent Jones, not the actual screenplay. Scorsese is working with Japanese novelist Shūsaku Endō on the screenplay, based on “A Life of Jesus.” The 80-minute film is set to be shot later this year.
Endō also wrote “Silence,” a novel about Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in 17th-century Japan, which Scorsese adapted into the 2016 movie. Spadaro, a priest, discussed Scorsese’s collaboration with him and the film’s reflection on his cinema. The final chapter shares an excerpt from the beginning of the draft.
