Next Scorsese flick is about Jesuit missionaries

[tmw89]

Martin Scorsese Finally Set to Make 'Silence'
Posted on Friday, April 19th, 2013 by Russ Fischer
http://www.slashfilm.com/martin-scorsese-finally-set-to-make-silence/

For quite a few years we've heard about Martin Scorsese's desire to adapt the Shusaku Endo novel Silence, about Jesuits who attempt to spread Christianity in 17th century Japan. For various reasons the project has never quite come to fruition. Once nearly set to shoot with Daniel Day-Lewis in the lead, the film fell behind many of the director's other projects when it came time to set up the financing and scheduling films. Shutter Island, then Hugo, and The Wolf of Wall Street all ended up shooting first. Lawsuits have even been filed by producers claiming damages thanks to the delays.

Now Silence seems like it is finally ready to go as financing is set and a shoot is planned for July 2014.

Deadline reports that Silence is one half of a two-picture deal between Scorse and Emmett/Furla films. Silence will be the first, and will follow The Wolf of Wall Street, with the script by Scorsese and Jay Cocks to be shot starting next summer in Taiwan.

Reportedly the director will officially announce/launch the project at Cannes, which means that we could well have casting info within the next couple weeks. Whether the film will be in 3D, as Scorsese once theorized, is unknown. (Though it seems unlikely.)

Young Portuguese Jesuit Sebastião Rodrigues is sent to Japan to succor the local Church and investigate reports that his mentor, Fr. Cristóvão Ferreira, has committed apostasy. (Ferreira is a historical figure, who apostatized after torture and later married a Japanese woman and wrote a treatise against Christianity.)
Fr. Rodrigues and his companion Fr. Francisco Garrpe arrive in Japan in 1638. There they find the local Christian population driven underground. Security officials force suspected Christians to trample on fumie, which are crudely carved images of Christ. Those who refuse are imprisoned and killed. The novel relates the trials of the Christians and increasing hardship suffered by Rodrigues, as more is learnt about the circumstances of Ferreira's apostasy.

[Bonaventure]

Can't wait!

[PatrickG]

It ought to be beautiful.

[BierKaiser]

Definitely sounds interesting.

[Alphonsus Jr.]

Will it, like his wretched The Last Temptation of Christ, be blasphemous? Most likely. Thus any fevered expressions of anticipation here are quite strange.

[dueSicilie]

The subject matter would make for a amazing picture, but scorsese, not so much.

[Heinrich]

I would love to be an extra.

[MilesChristi]

as a Japanese?

[Heinrich]

as a Japanese?

Sure. Why not. They put people of sub Saharan African descent in Nordic mythology movies.

[Alphonsus Jr.]

How very odd that any Catholic would want to contribute to the bank account of one who made the blasphemous The Last Temptation of Christ. Alas, such is today's diabolical disorientation.

[Bonaventure]

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

- Shakespeare, Henry VI.

[Alphonsus Jr.]

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

- Shakespeare, Henry VI.

True. Yet this is no license to consciously contribute to the bank account of a wretched blasphemer. In other words, your grenade is a red herring.

[tmw89]

I post about it only to make the community aware of it.  Had I been on Trad fora in 2004/5, I would have posted about the blasphemous Da Vinci Code picture in order to keep the community aware of it.  Such information can be useful in the event the picture does turn out to be blasphemous - picketing and Rosary rallies can be arranged, for example.

[MilesChristi]

as a Japanese?

Sure. Why not. They put people of sub Saharan African descent in Nordic mythology movies.

oh black Hemdall, so many jokes can be made about him.

[Heinrich]

How very odd that any Catholic would want to contribute to the bank account of one who made the blasphemous The Last Temptation of Christ. Alas, such is today's diabolical disorientation.

Relax, champ. I wasn't being serious.