Liam Neeson will star in Martin Scorsese's missionary film, Silence
Liam Neeson may be getting into the missionary position for the first time since 1986. It was announced that Liam Neeson will star in Silence, Martin Scorsese’s next movie. Silence is based on a novel by Shusaku Endo about 17 Century Jesuits bringing Christianity to Japan. Silence will also star Andrew Garfield and Ken Watanabe.
Martin Scorsese has been waiting two years to make Silence. The screenplay for Silence was written Martin Scorsese and Jay Cocks and Scorsese. Production is scheduled to begin in Taiwan later this year.
Liam Neeson worked with Scorsese on the film Gangs of New York. This isn’t the first time Neeson will play a missionary. He starred in the film The Mission. He made Robert De Niro push a big rock while choirs sang “eat a snowcone.”
Liam Neeson is also set to star in A Million Ways To Die In The West, which is being directed by Seth MacFarlane and A Walk Among The Tombstones. Neeson will soon be seen in the action films Taken 3 and Non-Stop. He will also do a voice in The Lego Movie.
Silence is being produced by Irwin Winkler, Randall Emmett and George Furla, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Checchi Gori, Barbara DeFina and Paul Breuls
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