Brigitte Lacombe
Martin Scorsese is exploring the journeys of eight women and men towards sainthood in a brand new docudrama sequence for Fox Nation.
The Killers of the Flower Moon director is launching Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints on the streaming service in November 2024.
He’ll host, narrate and exec produce the eight-part sequence.
Developed by Scorsese for Lionsgate Different Tv, the sequence was created by Matti Leshem, written by Scorsese’s collaborator Kent Jones and directed by Elizabeth Chomko.
Scorsese and Leshem exec produce alongside Julie Yorn, Rick Yorn, Christopher Donnelly, Yoshi Stone, Craig Piligian, David Ellender and Matt Loze. It’s produced by Lionsgate, Sikelia Productions, Weimaraner Republic Footage, LBI Leisure and Halcyon Studios.
The sequence will premiere in two elements, with the primary 4 episodes to air on Sunday, November 16, and the ultimate set to air in Might 2025.
Every episode focuses on a singular Saint, together with Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian, and Maximillian Kolbe, inspecting these figures and their acts of kindness, selflessness, and sacrifice.
Scorsese is the newest large identify to work with Fox Nation, which has beforehand labored with the likes of Kevin Costner, Matthew McConaughey, Rob Lowe, Dennis Quaid, Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi.
It’s not his solely brush with religion; The Final Waltz director revealed on the Berlin Movie Competition that he’s at present considering a movie on Jesus.
It additionally comes as Fox Nation lately picked up the rights to religion sequence The Chosen and The Ardour of the Christ.
Scorsese stated, “I’ve lived with the tales of the saints for many of my life, desirous about their phrases and actions, imagining the worlds they inhabited, the alternatives they confronted, the examples they set. These are tales of eight very completely different women and men, every of them dwelling by means of vastly completely different durations of historical past and struggling to comply with the best way of affection revealed to them and to us by Jesus’ phrases within the gospels. I’m so excited that this challenge is underway, and that I’m working with so many trusted and proficient collaborators.”