Scorsese teams with Fox Nation to examine the lives of saints
Martin Scorsese and Fox News? Yup. The director, most recently celebrated for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” is teaming with the media outlet to host, narrate, and executive produce a new eight-part docuseries. It will be available on the streaming service Fox Nation, with four episodes in November of this year and four in May of 2025.
The series, to be directed by Elizabeth Chomko, will be called “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints,” and it will look into the life of a different saint in each of the episodes. The subjects will include Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Sebastian, and Mary Magdalene, and there will be both interviews with religious experts and reenactments of some of the saints’ stories.
Scorsese joins a few other Hollywood names on Fox Nation, including Kevin Costner, Dennis Miller, Rob Lowe, and Kelsey Grammer. “I’ve lived with the stories of the saints for most of my life,” Scorsese said in a statement, “thinking about their words and actions, imagining the worlds they inhabited, the choices they faced, the examples they set. These are stories of eight very different men and women, each of them living through vastly different periods of history and struggling to follow the way of love revealed to them and to us by Jesus’ words in the gospels.”
It’s a long way from “Goodfellas,” “Raging Bull,” and “Mean Streets,” perhaps, but not from Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ” and the script he recently completed based on Shusaku Endo’s book “A Life of Jesus.”