Here is a statement from the director about the project:
“I have responded to the Pope’s appeal to artists in the only way I know how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus. And I’m about to start making it,” the director added, suggesting that this could be his next film."
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During the conversation Scorsese talked about the meaning of his own controversial 1988 epic “The Last Temptation of Christ” and his research on Jesus” on his 2016 drama “Silence” about the persecution of Jesuit Christians in 17th-century Japan. The film Silence was screened at the Vatican in 2016. Francis is known to have joined the Jesuit order hoping to become a missionary in Japan.
Source: Variety