Silence is a passion project for Scorsese and he’s been trying to make it happen since 1991.
“It depends on Paramount,” he told the site, the studio having penciled in the film for November or December.
Liam Neeson, Adam Driver and Andrew Garfield will star, the cast also featuring Tadanobu Asano, Ciarán Hinds, Shinya Tsukamoto, Yōsuke Kubozuka and Issey Ogata.
A few weeks back, Scorsese’s former girlfriend and creative collaborator Illeana Douglas shared a theory as to why Robert De Niro keeps accepting roles in bad films.