Martin Scorsese has two tasks lined up, together with The Life of Jesus and a Frank Sinatra biopic, however each have been postponed.

A Martin Scorsese film is all the time one thing to sit up for, however Variety studies that his subsequent two tasks have sadly been delayed. Martin Scorsese deliberate to shoot two films back-to-back this 12 months, together with The Life of Jesus, based mostly on Shūsaku Endō’s 1973 novel, and a biopic about Frank Sinatra.

Variety’s report states that each these tasks have been postponed, with neither to be filmed this 12 months. The Life of Jesus was anticipated to be up first, though there’s been nothing formally introduced concerning the solid. That mentioned, Andrew Garfield, who starred in Scorsese’s Silence, was rumoured to be eyeing the movie. The venture remains to be in improvement, with Scorsese hoping to shoot the movie in Israel, Italy, and Egypt. Earlier this 12 months, the director mentioned he was nonetheless figuring it out. “I’m contemplating it right now,” Scorsese mentioned. “What sort of movie I’m not fairly certain, however I wish to make one thing distinctive and completely different that may very well be thought-provoking and I hope additionally entertaining. I’m not fairly certain but how one can go about it.“

The final time Martin Scorsese tackled a venture about Jesus Christ, he was the main target of outrage. The Last Temptation of Christ starred Willem Dafoe as Christ, who struggled with varied kinds of temptation, together with lust, concern, and doubt. As a end result, it got here below hearth from Christian teams, who went as far as to assert the film was blasphemy.

As for Frank Sinatra, Martin Scorsese has been contemplating a biopic concerning the legendary singer for fairly a while. He was reportedly taking a look at Leonardo DiCaprio to star as Sinatra alongside Jennifer Lawrence as Ava Gardner, however as with The Life of Jesus, nothing has been formally introduced. At one level, the movie was supposed to start out manufacturing in November. However, a number of sources instructed Variety that these concerned within the venture have been notified final month that the beginning date had been cancelled. It’s unclear if the venture has obtained the blessing of Tina Sinatra, who controls her late father’s property. Such approval can be important, so maybe the manufacturing is ready till they’ve all their geese in a row.

Scorsese’s final movie was Killers of the Flower Moon. Based on David Grann’s best-selling crime thriller, the movie instructed the real-life thriller of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma within the Twenties, who turned rich after oil was found beneath their land. Then, one after the other, the Osage started to be killed off, and the following spiral of conspiracy, greed and homicide obtained so unhealthy that the FBI needed to step in.