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Francesca Scorsese Directs Finale of Martin Scorsese’s Fox Nation Series The Saints

She says she got the assignment because her father oversaw the project and maintains Fox Nation was the only outlet willing to make the series.

Overview

  • The finale premiered Dec. 7 on Fox Nation and profiles Carlo Acutis, the Italian teen widely known as a “millennial saint.”
  • Martin Scorsese serves as executive producer and narrator of the docudrama, which surveys notable figures from Catholic history.
  • Francesca Scorsese acknowledged family influence in her hiring, saying, “I got this, obviously, because my dad was overseeing everything as the executive producer.”
  • She said she was hesitant about working with Fox Nation because of its politics but proceeded because Fox was the only backer of the project.
  • During production, she chose not to film Acutis’s displayed body, used a small amount of stock footage instead, and reported receiving few notes from her father until post-production.