Over the weekend, our first look at Liam Neeson in Martin Scorsese‘s passion project Silence has graced the internet. The film is set to debut at next year’s Cannes Film Festival in May, according to reports.
The film, based on the novel by Shûsaku Endô, and adpated by Jay Cocks, is set in the seventeenth century where two Jesuit priests face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and to spread the gospel of Christianity.
The film, naturally has quite an impressive cast. Joining Neeson is Andrew Garfield, who we saw in the first official snap a couple of months ago, and future Star Wars star Adam Driver.
Silence has been on Scorsese’s radar since 2009, with Daniel Day Lewis, Benicio Del Toro and Ken Watanabe all attached to star at certian points in its development history.
It will be released in cinemas in 2016.
