According to Showbiz411, the
actor has landed a lead role in director’s Martin Scorsese adaptation of the
historical novel Silence, written by author Shusaku Endo. Silence has been collecting
dust on the director’s shelf for quite some time, and last we heard, Andrew
Garfield and Ken Watanabe had already been cast.
The story centers on two 17th
century Jesuit priests who travel to Japan to investigate reports of religious
persecution. Garfield will be playing one of the priests and we can assume that
Driver will play the other, since Watanabe will play their translator and the
rest of the cast is Japanese.
Shusako Endo’s Silence Synopsis:
Silence is a novel of historical
fiction by Japanese author Shusaku Endo. It is the story of a Jesuit missionary
sent to seventeenth century Japan, who endured persecution in the time of
Kakure Kirishitan (“Hidden Christians”) that followed the defeat of the
Shimabara Rebellion.
Written mostly in the form of a
letter by its central character, the theme of a silent God who accompanies a
believer in adversity was greatly influenced by the Catholic Endo’s experience
of religious discrimination in Japan, racism in France and debilitating
tuberculosis.
The recipient of the 1966
Tanizaki Prize, Silence has been called “Endo’s supreme achievement” and “one
of the twentieth century’s finest novels”.
“Silence I regard as a
masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama”. Irving Howe. — The New York Review of
Books
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