Is Scorsese 17th century Japanese film his 'last'?

[Taro Toporific]

Scorsese is sick of all this Hollywood crap
Cinematical, Nov 14, 2005, 8:32 AM ET
,,,, that was the gist of Martin Scorsese's comments yesterday at the Morocco Film Festival. ....
According to Scorsese, his upcoming adaptation of The Silence - a novel about Portuguese missionaries in 17th century Japan - will be one of his last efforts for Hollywood...

[Mulboyne]

According to Scorsese, his upcoming adaptation of The Silence - a novel about Portuguese missionaries in 17th century Japan

I've been keeping an eye out for news on this one but there has been virtually nothing, not even a listing on imdb.com. This will be a version of Shusaku Endo's book. From an article last year:

De-Lovely screenwriter Jay Cocks revealed a new project that he's collaborating on with director Martin Scorsese. The two previously teamed for Gangs of New York and The Age of Innocence. Cocks is reportedly "working with Scorsese on a movie called Silence about Jesuit priests in Japan in the 17th century. 'I'm sure we're going to get the Spider-Man audience for that one,' jokes Cocks..."Silence is set in sixteenth century Japan, where Portuguese missionaries must contend with traders from rival European nations and the persecution of Christians by Japanese feudal lords. The feudal lords want to drive Christianity out of Japan, and try to do so by torturing priests into apostasy, denying their faith. This is done symbolically by stepping on a 'fumie,' a Christian image, like a picture of Mary or a crucifix. Two Portuguese priests, Sebastian Rodrigues and Francis Garrpe, make a dangerous journey to Japan, both to locate and comfort Japanese converts, and to discover the truth about a supposed apostate priest, Ferreira."

A local version was made in 1971 with now-45-years-in-Japan Don Kenny.

[Taro Toporific]

According to Scorsese, his upcoming adaptation of The Silence - a novel about Portuguese missionaries in 17th century Japan

I've been keeping an eye out for news on this one but there has been virtually nothing, not even a listing on imdb.com. This will be a version of Shusaku Endo's book.

You're right about "there has been virtually nothing"---I was worried this was some fanboy's wetdream in blog form.

[Mulboyne]

[AssKissinger]

Despite the big early success of his new film "The Departed," Martin Scorsese plans to take a break from Hollywood blockbusters and focus on the adaptation of a Japanese novel for his next work, he said on Sunday.



His next project could not be more different from the crime stories he is renowned for. It's an adaptation of Shusaku Endo's novel "Silence" and tells the story of two 17th century Portuguese missionaries.


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[amdg]

Looking forward to it (as I am to seeing The Departed). And from Scorcese's pool of regularly-used talent, De Caprio could probably do a good Sebastian Rodrigues.

[emperor]

I'll probably watch The Departed tonight & like it, but a friend was saying that the original Chinese/Japanese flick Infernal Affairs from 2002 was much better... but aint that always the case.

[amdg]

Infernal Affairs was excellent, but from what I hear of The Departed, its a very different movie.

[emperor]

VVaRNiNG 5P01L3R5

Wow, that was a whole lot of people getting shot in the head!!
Of course, there are twists; but nothing you wont see coming at least 2or3 executions in advance.

Half the soundtrack seem to come from Irish-American band Flogging Molly.

[etto_neh]

I'll probably watch The Departed tonight & like it, but a friend was saying that the original Chinese/Japanese flick Infernal Affairs from 2002 was much better... but aint that always the case.

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[Mulboyne]

AFP: Scorsese seeking Day-Lewis and Del Toro for 'Silence'

Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese is in talks with fellow Oscar winners Daniel Day-Lewis and Benicio Del Toro as potential stars of his upcoming film "Silence" set in 17th century Japan, Variety magazine said Monday. The legendary "Taxi Driver" director, whose "The Departed" garnished an Oscar in 2007, has been considering adapting Japanese author Shusaku Endo's novel for more than ten years, the magazine said. In the production, Day-Lewis and Del Toro would play two Jesuit priests facing violence and persecution as they search for their mentor and spread the Christian gospel in Japan. Scorsese is expected to begin shooting "Silence" in New Zealand later this year.

[kurohinge1]

[SIZE="4"]Scorsese plans film on Japanese Christians[/SIZE]


Fumie desu.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese plans to adapt for the screen a novel on Japan's brutal persecution of Christians during the 17th century.

The 1966 novel Chinmoku (Silence) by Shusaku Endo tells the story of a young idealistic Jesuit priest from Portugal who lands on the shores of Nagasaki in southern Japan - then the only region open to foreigners.

The novel depicts the severe persecution Japan then inflicted on converts to Christianity, many of whom were impoverished villagers and went into hiding.

Academy Award-winning art director Dante Ferretti, who is close to Scorsese, and producer E Bennett Walsh last week visited the Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture to research the film.

"They are going to make a movie and so they visited to research Japanese Christian history," museum spokesman Koichiro Nishijima said.

He said that the pair carefully studied a "fumie," a metal plaque depicting Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary that authorities would make people step on in order to weed out Christians.

The Asahi Shimbun newspaper said actors who may star in the movie include Daniel Day-Lewis, Gael Garcia Bernal and Benicio Del Toro, who recently depicted Che Guevara in Steven Soderbergh's Che.

Scorsese plans to start shooting the film in New Zealand later this year and expects it to reach cinemas in 2010, the Asahi reported.

It would be the first major work directed by a foreigner about the subject, a less well-known part of Japan's history.

As many as 30,000 Japanese are believed to have been persecuted for their Christian faith, which was introduced by Spanish Jesuit Francis Xavier in 1549 but banned for centuries.

The Roman Catholic Church last year beatified 188 Japanese martyrs, mostly laypeople who were tortured to death.

Christians came out of hiding when Japan ended its policy of self-imposed seclusion in the 1860s.

Christians now make up a small part of the population in the largely Buddhist and Shinto nation and include prominent figures such as Prime Minister Taro Aso. . . more

[Behan]

I'm looking forward to seeing it. There was a fumiescene in Shogun where they were trying to find Christians in a group of samurai.

[BO-SENSEI]

VVaRNiNG 5P01L3R5

Wow, that was a whole lot of people getting shot in the head!!
Of course, there are twists]Flogging Molly[/I].

Actually its the Dropkick Murphys but as a bostonian, i know these things.

[wuchan]

Actually its the Dropkick Murphys but as a bostonian, i know these things.

bostonian or townie? What street?
"bostonian" = college kid who thinks that living in bean for four years makes them somehow equal to those of us who were born there.

the murphys are from quincy.

[BO-SENSEI]

well i am a bostonian in the Japan sense of the phrase because no one knows where maine is and no i did not go to school in boston but have spent plenty of time there, and i never said the murphys were from boston i just insinuated that they were popular there.

[gkanai]

I know the writer for this film. I have high hopes for this one.