Martin Scorsese is 80 years old and has no intention of retiring. As much as you think it’s too late, the truth is that you still have many stories to tell before someone rips the camera out of your hands, and we already know what the next one will be about after ‘Killers of the flower moon’ ‘. The funny thing is that Before the public, the first to know was… the Pope.
I absolve you
The director took advantage of his visit to Cannes to take a trip through Italy and go to the Vatican, where he had a meeting with Pope Francis. “I have responded to the Pope’s interest in artists in the only way I know how: by imagining and Writing a script for a movie about Jesusand I’m about to start it”. It must be remembered that as well as the Church seems to get along with Scorsese now, for years he was persona non grata after the premiere of ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’.
Of course, at least he was able to redeem himself with ‘Silence’, which was even screened at the Holy See in 2016. Scorsese’s visit, by the way, has been framed next to that of forty poets and writers of all kinds who have gathered in the city. The Pope encouraged them to continue doing their work: “Don’t stop being original, creative. Don’t lose the prodigy of being alive.”
At the moment we know little else, and apparently Scorsese’s manager has not confirmed anything yet, so the end of his religious trilogy is still up in the air. It is not his only rumored film: in addition, ‘Roosevelt’ is supposed to have entered pre-production with Leonardo DiCaprio incarnating the American president and also ‘The Wager’, about a shipwreck on the high seas, also with the actor as the protagonist. We will see what is the next step in this prolific career that is practically told in masterpieces.
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