Martin Scorsese to bring Silence to the screen starring Girls' Adam Driver
Martin Scorsese is finally getting ready to adapt Silence for the screen. Martin has been kicking this one around for a decade, when Scorsese planned to make the film with Javier Bardem and Daniel Day-Lewis. It was announced today that Adam Driver, the breakout star from the HBO show Girls, has been signed for the lead.
Adam Driver has been moving up the showbiz ladder since being cast on Girls, last year he played in Stephen Spielberg’s Lincoln and Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis. This year he appeared in the indie flick Frances Ha. Adam Driver will be seen in Shawn Levy’s This Is Where I Leave You, Saverio Costanzo’s Hungry Hearts, Michael Dowse’s The F Word, and John Curran’s Tracks.
The new Martin Scorsese film is based on the novel by Shushako Endo. Silence tells the story of 17th Century Jesuit priests who try to bring the word of Jesus to China only to be persecuted and tortured.
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.”
Scorsese confirmed that Adam Driver got the part at HBO’s post-Golden Globes. Scorsese has also cast Andrew Garfield from The Amazing Spider-Man and Ken Watanabe from Inception.
There are rumors putting Adam Driver in everything, just today casting rumors put him in Star Wars Episode VII, but he’s also been reportedly attached to Batman vs. Superman as Nightwing, although he debunked the rumor, himself.
SOURCE: USA Herald
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