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NEW YORK — He’s made plenty of movies featuring sinners. Now, he’s turning to the life of saints.
Famed movie director Martin Scorsese — known for mob movies such as “Goodfellas” and the “The Departed,” for which he won an Oscar for best director — signed a deal with FOX Nation to produce and host an eight-part docudrama series on saints.
The series, according to FOX, will explore the “remarkable stories of eight men and women who risked everything to embody humanity’s most noble and complex trait — faith.”
The series will follow the lives of saints such as 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 another man.
Jason Klarman, FOX News Media chief digital and marketing officer, said the series will debut this coming November.
“Having the greatest storyteller tell some of the greatest stories of all time is exactly the kind of exclusive content that is driving FOX Nation’s success,” he said. “It’s an honor to welcome the world-renowned Martin Scorsese to the FOX Nation platform.”
Scorsese, who briefly considered becoming a Catholic priest before switching to filmmaking, told the Los Angeles Times this past January that his next film would be an adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s book “A Life of Jesus.”
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Famed movie director Martin Scorsese — known for mob movies such as “Goodfellas” and the “The Departed,” for which he won an Oscar for best director — signed a deal with FOX Nation to produce and host an eight-part docudrama series on saints.
The series, according to FOX, will explore the “remarkable stories of eight men and women who risked everything to embody humanity’s most noble and complex trait — faith.”
The series will follow the lives of saints such as 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 another man.
Jason Klarman, FOX News Media chief digital and marketing officer, said the series will debut this coming November.
“Having the greatest storyteller tell some of the greatest stories of all time is exactly the kind of exclusive content that is driving FOX Nation’s success,” he said. “It’s an honor to welcome the world-renowned Martin Scorsese to the FOX Nation platform.”
Scorsese, who briefly considered becoming a Catholic priest before switching to filmmaking, told the Los Angeles Times this past January that his next film would be an adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s book “A Life of Jesus.”
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Famed Director Martin Scorsese To Produce 8-Part Docuseries On The Life Of Saints
Famed movie director Martin Scorsese — known for mob movies such as “Goodfellas” and the “The Departed” — signed a deal with FOX Nation to produce and host an eight-part docudrama series on saints. The series, according to FOX, will explore the “remarkable stories of eight men and women who risked e
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