Martin Scorsese has already said he's working on a film about Jesus, and now he's making a project about saints. Scorsese will host, narrate and produce an eight-part docudrama called Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints for the streaming service Fox Nation, it announced Wednesday. Oscars 2024: Martin Scorsese Absolutely Loved Ryan Gosling’s ‘I’m Just Ken’ Performance and This Video Is a Proof – WATCH.

The series will follow the lives of eight men and women who have been beatfied, including Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene and Maximilian Kolbe, a Franciscan friar who volunteered to die at Auschwitz to save the life of the father of a family. The first four episodes of Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints will debut in November. The remaining four will air by May 2025. Oscars 2024: From Bradley Cooper's Maestro to Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, Check Out the Big Losers of 96th Academy Awards With Multiple Nominations and ZERO Wins!.

Award-Winning Filmmaker Martin Scorsese Set to Unveil 8-Part Docuseries on Sainthood for Fox Nation

 

The Oscar winner, who briefly pursued becoming a priest before switching to filmmaking, told the Los Angeles Times in January that his next film would be an adaptation of Shusaku Endo's book A Life of Jesus.