Martin Scorsese'sThe Departed opens next weekend and it looks way WAY WAY too cool to put into words. But what next for the legendary director? Well according to
Production Weekly, his next movie will be an adaptation of Japanese writer
Shusaku Endo's novel
Silence. Apparentaly Scorsese has been wanting to shoot this movie for around a decade but has put it off to work on
Gangs of New York,
The Aviator and most recently
The Departed. Plot info of the novel from
Cinema Blend...
"The story is set in sixteenth century Japan and deals with Japanese feudal lords, the persecution of Christians, the torturing of priests, and dangerous journeys". This sounds like a cool new direction for Scorsese, i'm anxious to see what he would do with a 16th century feudal Japan. Although having said that, his historical take on Gangs of New York wasn't so succesful was it? And there isn't much chance of his boy
Leonardo Di Caprio starring in this movie, the main characters are portugese. source -
production weekly,
cinema blend