Indeed, Marty seems ready to make his next flick one with Daniel Day-Lewis in the cast, as Variety reports:
Martin Scorsese is determined to make "Silence" his next movie. The helmer and Graham King's GK Films are negotiating with Oscar winners Daniel Day-Lewis and Benicio Del Toro to star. Gael Garcia Bernal is also circling the film, expected to begin production later this year in New Zealand.
The drama is set in the 17th century as two Jesuit priests face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and to spread the gospel of Christianity.
"Silence" is based on the Shusaku Endo novel, which was adapted by Jay Cocks. Scorsese has had the project on his radar for more than a decade.
The film would be Day-Lewis' third with Scorsese following "Gangs of New York" and "The Age of Innocence." Day-Lewis has completed the Rob Marshall-directed musical "Nine."
"Silence" would mark the first collaboration for Scorsese and Del Toro, who most recently starred in the Steven Soderbergh-directed "Che" and next stars as the title character in "The Wolf Man." Garcia Bernal, best known for "Babel" and "Y tu mama tambien," is in early talks.
There is currently no domestic distributor for the pic. King is financing the film himself, as he did on "Edge of Darkness," the William Monahan-scripted and Martin Campbell-directed drama that stars Mel Gibson.
Scorsese and King have worked together on "The Departed," "The Aviator" and "Gangs of New York."
Scorsese most recently completed an adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel "Shutter Island" for Paramount with Leonardo DiCaprio starring.
The drama is set in the 17th century as two Jesuit priests face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and to spread the gospel of Christianity.
"Silence" is based on the Shusaku Endo novel, which was adapted by Jay Cocks. Scorsese has had the project on his radar for more than a decade.
The film would be Day-Lewis' third with Scorsese following "Gangs of New York" and "The Age of Innocence." Day-Lewis has completed the Rob Marshall-directed musical "Nine."
"Silence" would mark the first collaboration for Scorsese and Del Toro, who most recently starred in the Steven Soderbergh-directed "Che" and next stars as the title character in "The Wolf Man." Garcia Bernal, best known for "Babel" and "Y tu mama tambien," is in early talks.
There is currently no domestic distributor for the pic. King is financing the film himself, as he did on "Edge of Darkness," the William Monahan-scripted and Martin Campbell-directed drama that stars Mel Gibson.
Scorsese and King have worked together on "The Departed," "The Aviator" and "Gangs of New York."
Scorsese most recently completed an adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel "Shutter Island" for Paramount with Leonardo DiCaprio starring.
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I'm really wondering what Scorsese's next movie is gonna be after Shutter Island, he's scheduled to do Silence, The George Harrison documentary, Teddy Roosevelt, The Wolf of Wall Street and the hitman movie with Robert De Niro(blanking on the title) After Departed came out everywhere said his next film was Silence but no it was Shine a Light now its Shutter Island, then I heard it was Roosevelt next, then Wolf of Wall Street recently they were saying George Harrison documentary and the De Niro hitman movie....now were hearing about Silence again...I wish he could release all of them lol...
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this seems slightly more definitive than usual, but he's already shot some of the Harrison documentary if I'm not mistaken, so Shutter Island would come out, then Silence would get made, the doc would come out, he'd begin on Roosevelt Rising or something else and then Silence would come out
ReplyDeleteDaniel Day-Lewis + Benicio del Toro + Gael Garcia Bernal + MARTIN SCORSESE!
ReplyDeleteI cannot even fathom what a heavenly combination that would be