Martin Scorsese's Film About Jesus To Begin Shooting This Year

Martin Scorsese announced in a recent interview that his upcoming feature about Jesus will begin filming this year.The filmmaker revealed to The Los Angeles Times that the project will be based on Shūsaku Endō's A Life of Jesus, and that the screenplay is officially completed with the help of fellow filmmaker Kent Jones. "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 explained, adding that ...