Martin Scorsese has signed a cope with Fox Nation, the streaming platform for Fox Information Media, to host, narrate, and govt produce an eight-episode docudrama titled Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints.
The spiritual sequence is ready to launch in two components, debuting on Nov. 16, and working by Could 2025. Every episode will dramatize the life of a distinct saint, together with Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian, and Maximillian Kolbe. Per a press launch, the sequence is billed as an exploration of “the outstanding tales of eight women and men who risked every thing to embody humanity’s most noble and complicated trait — religion.”
Scorsese is the most recent high-voltage Hollywood title to hitch the Fox Nation staff, becoming a member of Kevin Costner (Yellowstone: One-Fifty), Rob Lowe (Liberty or Loss of life: Boston Tea Occasion), and Dan Aykroyd (A Historical past Of The World in Six Glasses).
The Oscar-winning director has targeted his lens on Christianity all through a lot of his work, and his controversial 1988 movie, The Final Temptation of Christ, drew backlash from spiritual teams over its portrayal of Jesus grappling with human wishes, doubts, and his personal divinity.
Following the premiere of Killers of the Flower Moon, Scorsese informed the Los Angeles Occasions in January that he met with Pope Francis and “responded to the pope’s attraction to artists in the one method I understand how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a movie about Jesus.” Based mostly on Japanese author Shusaku Endo’s ebook A Lifetime of Jesus, the director stated the movie would depict Jesus’ teachings and might be largely set within the current day.
“Proper now, ‘faith,’ you say that phrase and everyone seems to be up in arms as a result of it’s failed in so some ways,” Scorsese informed the Los Angeles Occasions. “However that doesn’t imply essentially that the preliminary impulse was flawed. Let’s get again. Let’s simply give it some thought. You might reject it. Nevertheless it may make a distinction in how you reside your life — even in rejecting it. Don’t dismiss it offhand. That’s all I’m speaking about. And I’m saying that as an individual who’s going to be 81 in a few days. You understand what I’m saying?”
Rick Yorn, a producer on a number of of Scorsese’s tasks and Leonardo DiCaprio’s supervisor, is amongst The Saints’ govt producers.
