Academy Award-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese claims that his new “film about Jesus” will radically alter public opinion on organized religion.
The movie, which is based on Japanese novelist Shūsaku Endō’s book “A Life of Jesus,” was announced last year and is scheduled to start filming later in 2024. The screenplay is reportedly finished, and the movie will have an estimated run time of 80 minutes.
Scorsese discussed his goals for the project during a Los Angeles Times profile published Monday. “I’m trying to find a new way to make it more accessible and take away the negative onus of what has been associated with organized religion,” Scorsese said of the film.
“Right now, ‘religion,’ you say that word and everyone is up in arms because it’s failed in so many ways,” the 81-year-old filmmaker continued. “You may reject it. But it might make a difference…
