The trailer for Martin Scorsese's first movie since Wolf of Wall Street back in 2013 has been released and the film, which the director has wanted to make for 28 years, looks like it will be worth the wait.
Silence is set in the 17th Century and tells the story of two Portuguese Christian missionaries (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) who travel to Japan in search of their missing mentor (Liam Neeson), at a time when practicing Christianity in the country is illegal.
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The film's script is based on Shūsaku Endō's 1966 novel of the same name and the film has been in development since 1990.
In 2013, speaking about the feature, Scorsese told the magazine, Deadline: "My initial interests in life were very strongly formed by what I took seriously at that time, and 45-50 years ago I was steeped in the Roman Catholic religion. As you get older, ideas go and come. Questions, answers, loss of the answer again and more questions, and this is what really interests me.
"Yes, the cinema and the people in my life and my family are most important, but ultimately as you get older, there's got to be more. Much, much more. The very nature of secularism right now is really fascinating to me, but at the same time do you wipe away what could be more enriching in your life, which is an appreciation or some sort of search for that which is spiritual and transcends?
"That's one of the reasons why I made the George Harrison documentary. Silence is just something that I'm drawn to in that way. It's been an obsession, it has to be done... it's a strong, wonderful true story, a thriller in a way, but it deals with those questions."
Silence will be released in the US on 23 December, with a wider release in January. That means it's likely to be an Oscar contender.
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