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Martin Scorsese has agreed to spearhead a documentary collection about Christian saints for Fox Nation, the subscription streaming service run by Fox News Media.
“Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints,” which begins airing in November, will probably be hosted, narrated and government produced by Scorsese, the embellished director of traditional movies like “Taxi Driver” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Fox Nation is ready to formally announce the collection on Wednesday.
Since its debut in 2018 as a companion service to Fox News, Fox Nation has expanded into leisure and general-interest programming because it aspires to develop into a form of Netflix for conservative audiences. The streaming community already boasts reveals with Hollywood stars like Kevin Costner (“Yellowstone: One-Fifty”), Rob Lowe (“Liberty or Death: Boston Tea Party”) and Dan Aykroyd (“History of the World in Six Glasses”).
The Scorsese collection, created by Matti Leshem, dramatizes the tales of eight saints, together with Joan of Arc, John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene, Francis of Assisi and Thomas Becket.
“I’ve lived with the tales of the saints for many of my life, excited about their phrases and actions, imagining the worlds they inhabited, the alternatives they confronted, the examples they set,” Scorsese mentioned in an announcement. “These are tales of eight very totally different women and men, every of them dwelling by vastly totally different intervals of historical past and struggling to comply with the way in which of affection revealed to them and to us by Jesus’ phrases within the gospels.”
Along with narrating re-enactments of the saints’ tales, Scorsese will even host on-camera discussions with consultants. Four episodes will stream on Nov. 16, with the concluding quartet of episodes launched in May 2025. The collection is directed by Elizabeth Chomko and written by Kent Jones.
Christianity is a frequent preoccupation of Scorsese’s works, at occasions to the consternation of conservative audiences. His 1988 movie, “The Last Temptation of Christ,” was denounced by non secular teams for its depiction of Jesus, performed by Willem Dafoe, fighting human urges and frailties and questioning his divinity.
Scorsese, 81, advised The Los Angeles Times in January that he has accomplished a screenplay for a brand new movie about Jesus, based mostly on the e book “A Life of Jesus,” by the Japanese author Shusaku Endo. The director mentioned the movie would study Jesus’s teachings and be principally set within the current day.
“Right now, ‘faith,’ you say that phrase and everyone seems to be up in arms as a result of it’s failed in so some ways,” Scorsese advised the newspaper. “But that doesn’t imply essentially that the preliminary impulse was flawed. Let’s get again. Let’s simply give it some thought. You might reject it. But it’d make a distinction in how you reside your life — even in rejecting it.”
Rick Yorn, Leonardo DiCaprio’s manager and a producer on a number of of Scorsese’s earlier movies, is among the many government producers on “The Saints.” Lionsgate Alternative Television is producing.
Scorsese was nominated for the most effective director prize at this month’s Academy Awards for his movie “Killers of the Flower Moon”; he misplaced to Christopher Nolan of “Oppenheimer.”
