According to Deadline actor Liam
Neeson, who found recent success as an action star in Taken and Taken 2, will
be reuniting with his Gangs of New York director Martin Scorsese for the
director’s next film Silence. Neeson
will join Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver and Ken Watanabe in the adaptation of Shusako
Endo’s novel that follows the story centers on two 17th century Jesuit priests
(Driver and Garfield) who travel to Japan to investigate reports of religious
persecution.
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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