It looks like financing has finally been secured for Martin Scorsese's long-awaited film Silence, an adaptation of the Shusaku Endo novel about 17th century Jesuits who risk their lives to bring Christianity to Japan.
According to Deadline, Emmett/Furla Films has agreed to fund the project. Scorsese hopes to begin shooting in Taiwan in July 2014 -- that's assuming casting all goes smoothly. Scorsese has wanted to make Silence since 1991, and he's had a lot of big names attached to star over the years, including Daniel Day-Lewis, Benicio Del Toro and Gael Garcia Bernal.
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