Martin Scorsese is looking to cast Andrew Garfield and Miles Teller in his upcoming Jesus movie, Variety reports.
The movie, which is expected to start filming later this year, will be based on A Life of Jesus, the 1973 novel by Shūsaku Endō. It's still unclear whether Garfield or Teller will be playing the titular figure. According to Variety, the director is looking to independently finance the movie, bypassing the studio system. "I have responded to the Pope's appeal to artists in the only way I know how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus," Scorsese said at a conference at the Vatican last year.
