Martin Scorsese has another film about Jesus in the works, he reportedly revealed during a visit to the Vatican.
The director met with Pope Francis on Saturday before going to the “Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination” conference in Rome, according to Variety.
“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,” Scorsese said at the conference, according to Variety, which cited multiple reports.
“And I’m about to start making it.”
Scorsese, 80, previously directed 1988′s “The Last Temptation of Christ,” which stars Willem Dafoe as Jesus. He also co-wrote and directed 2016′s “Silence” starring Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver as Jesuit priests.
The filmmaker did not release plot details for his new movie.
Scorsese’s announcement comes nearly two decades after Mel Gibson released “The Passion of the Christ” in 2004. Gibson has long been linked to a sequel, but his team pushed back on reports that production would begin soon, according to The Guardian.
Earlier this month, Scorsese premiered his latest film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” at France’s Cannes Film Festival to a nine-minute standing ovation. The 1920s-set movie, starring longtime Scorsese collaborators Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, centers on the Osage Nation murders in Oklahoma.
“Killers of the Flower Moon” is schedule to arrive in theaters and on Apple TV+ in October.
Scorsese, a 14-time Oscar nominee, won best director in 2007 for “The Departed” and is known as well for films such as “Goodfellas,” “Gangs of New York,” “Raging Bull” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.”