Martin Scorsese will reunite with Andrew Garfield for his next feature, The Life Of Jesus: more on the new project here.
Martin Scorsese had promised to get back out making movies quickly once he was done with his promotional and awards work on Killers Of The Flower Moon, and he’s set to be keeping his word. As had been strongly suggested, he’s going to be making a film about Jesus Christ next, that appears to be going by the title The Life Of Jesus.
The film will reteam Martin Scorsese with Andrew Garfield, with whom he made the movie Silence. The plan, as previously discussed, is for this to be a much slimmer film in terms of runtime that Scorsese’s last couple of outings. A running time of less than 90 minutes has been talked about.
We also know that the plan is for the film to be set in the present day, although Scorsese is reportedly reluctant to lock things to a certain timeframe.
Based on the book by Shusaku Endo, The Life Of Jesus is reportedly set to begin production this coming October. It’s being made outside of the studio system, with filming set to take place across Italy, Israel and Egypt. No distributor appears to have the rights to the movie just yet.
Kent Jones and Martin Scorsese have penned the screenplay for the film, and we’d reckon that if all goes to plan, it’ll get a festival debut at some point next year. That points to a wider release towards the end of 2025.
More news on The Life Of Jesus as we get it. Scorsese’s mooted plan was also, once he’d completed the film, to pretty much get going on his film after that. The running favourite would be a Frank Sinatra biopic but that’s a project that’s been swimming around for a very, very long time.
