When news broke that Martin Scorsese’s next two planned films — a Frank Sinatra biopic and a religious drama, “The Life of Jesus” — were being postponed, unfounded rumors started swirling that the great filmmaker was retiring.

Per World Of Reel, Scorsese told the press conference at the Cinema Museum in Torino, Italy, where he accepted the Premio Della Mole Award, that he has “no intention of retiring.” The director also updated the press on the projects,

Those looking forward to Martin Scorsese's Jesus movie and Frank Sinatra biopic will have to keep waiting. Variety reports that Scorsese was set to film The Life of Jesus and his Sinatra biopic back-to-back this year. However, both have now been postponed indefinitely and will not begin filming this year.

Legendary director Martin Scorsese has shelved plans to make two new movies about Frank Sinatra and Jesus, respectively. They were due to shoot this year.

Oscar winner Martin Scorsese said ahead of picking up the Italian Cinema Museum's top honour in Turin Monday that he was not yet saying goodbye to cinema and still had a lot of films to make. "No, I absolutely don't mean to say goodbye to cinema.