Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints

Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints is an upcoming eight-part docudrama series set to premiere on Fox Nation.

Premise
Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints explores the lives and sacrifices of historical saints like Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian, and Maximillian Kolbe, highlighting their acts.

Development
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 [Raging Bull] would be my last film," Scorsese said in 2016. "And at the time, because of the films that [Bernardo] 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," he explained. He intended to set the project up at RAI, and explore the various questions of what it meant to be saint, and where the figures came from.