| Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints | |
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| Created by | Matti Leshem |
| Written by | Kent Jones |
| Directed by | Elizabeth Chomko |
| Narrated by | Martin Scorsese |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
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| Network | Fox Nation |
| Release | November 17, 2024 – present |
Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints is an eight-part docudrama series that premiered on Fox Nation on November 17, 2024. [1]
Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints explores the lives of selected Christian saints: John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene, Saint Sebastian, Moses the Black, Thomas Becket, Francis of Assisi, Joan of Arc and Maximilian Kolbe, devoting an episode to each. [1]
After Raging Bull in the early 1980s, Martin Scorsese considered quitting filmmaking, wanting to travel to Rome to shoot a series of television documentaries on the lives of different saints: "I literally thought it would be my last film," said Scorsese in 2016, referring to Raging Bull. "And at the time, because of the films that Bertolucci and the Tavianis and others had made for RAI, and in particular Roberto Rossellini's historical films, I thought that television was the future of cinema. Or, I should say: television mixed with cinema." [3]
Scorsese intended to set the project up at RAI, and explore the various questions of what it meant to be a saint, and where the figures came from. [3] After the project fell apart, Scorsese channeled his spiritual interests into films such as The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun , and Silence . Decades later, the series was revived when it was greenlit by Fox Nation. [4]
The first four episodes were released on Fox Nation between November and December 2024. The next four episodes will be released between April and May 2025. [5]