After Wim Wenders with the film on Pope Bergoglio, now it's Martin Scorsese's turn. This morning the great American filmmaker met Francesco in the Vatican. It's not the first time they've met and recently Scorsese announced his intention to make a feature film focused on the life of Jesus, inspired by the Gospel according to Matthew by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The director has indeed decided to respond to Pope Francis's call, who asked artists to create more content based on the concept of 'faith'.

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In his long career, Scorsese also shot 'The Last Temptation of Christ', which was banned by the Church at the time. He later shot 'Silence', which tells of the persecutions suffered by Jesuit missionaries sent in the 17th century to Japan where another Jesuit, Francis Xavier, a companion of the founder of the Company of Jesus, Saint Ignatius, had brought the Christian faith in 1549.

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