There is something good to come out of all these Asian remakes in Hollywood specifically for Martin Scorsese. Silence is a Japanese project he has been trying to make for some ten years, and it finally seems as though he’ll get it made.
Adaptation of a Japanese novel by Shusaku Endo is the martyrdom-themed tale of two 17th century Portuguese missionaries who return to Japan to minister to Christians, who’ve been outlawed. Scorsese has been trying to do the project on and off for around ten years.
Project is being moved by Initial Entertainment Group, the same company who are producing Scorsese’s current project “The Departed”.
Say’s Dark Horizons from Variety concerning his announcement at the Marrakech Film Festival. So it looks like thanks to The Departed and the Hollywood infactuation with Asian movies he’s going to get this made. Sounds good, particularly if it has been a passion of his for the last ten years rather than another in a list of Asian movies pulled out by Execs.
However don’t expect anything on this soon, after Departed is finished there’s a bizarre movie on his plate, Untitled Airbus Documentary Project. Eh?
