Paramount will distribute Martin Scorsese’s next movie, Silence
Paramount Pictures is in talks to nab the U.S. distribution rights to Martin Scorsese’s upcoming historical drama Silence. The new Martin Scorsese film is based on a novel by Shusaku Endo about 17 Century Jesuits bringing Christianity to Japan only to be persecuted and tortured.
Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, Ken Watanabe and Adam Driver are set to star in the picture. Jay Cocks, who wrote the script to Scorsese’s Gangs Of New York, is writing the screenplay. Paramount distributed The Wolf Of Wall Street, which pulled in five Oscars nominations including Best Picture, as well as Shutter Island and Hugo.
Andrew Garfield stars as 17th-century Portuguese Jesuit Father Rodrigues, who goes to Japan to find that Christians have been driven into hiding because of religious persecution. Neeson will play a priest who has gone missing. Paramount released Scorsese’s three most recent films — The Wolf of Wall Street, Hugo, and Shutter Island. It has not set a release date for Silence.
Amazon says the novel is about “A Japanese Catholic, Endo tells the story of two seventeenth-century missionaries attempting to shore up the oppressed Japanese Christian movement. Father Rodrigues has come to Japan to find the truth behind unthinkable rumours that his famous teacher Ferreira has renounced his faith. But after his arrival he discovers that the only way to help the brutally persecuted Christians may be to apostatize himself.”
Martin Scorsese has been waiting two years to make Silence. Production is scheduled to begin in Taiwan later this year, with a likely release date in November of 2015.
SOURCE: Deadline
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