Overview
- The Carlo Acutis installment of Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints premiered on Fox Nation on Sunday, Dec. 7.
- Francesca Scorsese directed the episode, with Martin Scorsese serving as narrator and executive producer.
- She chose to avoid shooting Acutis’s body in Assisi and relied on a small amount of stock footage instead.
- Francesca said she got the job because her father oversaw the series and openly acknowledged the nepotism label.
- She noted initial hesitation about the Fox Nation platform’s politics but said Fox was the only outlet that backed the project.