You leave that rat on the balcony! (or was it the Basement?) But Nunnari never did say that Silence was to be filmed in 2008. If it was, an in-between film seems unlikely. Then what is more likely? That Nunnari is wrong about a film before Silence, or that Scorsese misspoke about a possible Summer 2008 start? Thanks for the new Silence edition. Must get this one too, I suppose. If only for the wonderful magenta shades...

I love the idea of DDL and DeNiro to star in this but it sounds like everything is still fairly open. Even the start date. Why can't they just give him the money to do Silence now! :x Here here! BTW, I see that the la-*test*-('") edition of the novel has a foreword by Scorsese. Can I get the foreword separately? That cover may bring me out in a rash :wink:

A little more of the same from producer Nunnari: Another of Nunnari's projects, "Silence," is to be directed by Martin Scorsese. "That's a book ('Chinmoku' by Shusaku Endo that has been) with Scorsese and myself for a long time," he said. "And, also, we are working on that. I don't know when it's going to go. I think we have another movie that we're thinking about (doing) with Martin before 'Silence.' So if I'm lucky, maybe I can do two movies instead of one with Martin Scorsese -- knock on wood. With 'Silence' I think we have to wait for the availability of a few actors. It's such an important cast that I think we have the time probably to squeeze another great movie (from Scorsese) in between. We're talking about (what that could be)." (taken from here)

I don't believe we've posted what Jay Cocks has to say. It's from an interview a couple of months back: What can you tell us about Silence-your upcoming project with Martin Scorsese? JC: Well, let's just hope that that's his next movie! It's a very tough movie to get made. It doesn't have an overtly commercial theme. It's a historical movie, which makes people very nervous that it's about religion, which makes people very nervous, indeed, that it's about a clash of culture, which makes people just as nervous as they are about religion! So, all these things combined make it what you would call a kind of tough sell. But Marty has been very adamant about wanting to make this film and is trying very hard …We will do it when the casting and timing come together.

I think De Niro announced at Cannes that they're doing Silence. Can someone who speaks Italian translate from this article? Here's what the babelfish says: Silence, Scorsese and De Niro of new together If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Thus after “those good boy” and pomps “Fear Chief”, the brace of gold formed from Martin Scorsese and Robert de Niro, are recomposed for the film “Silence”. To announce it is own de Niro, engaged in these days to the Festival di Cannes with the presentation of “What just happened”. It seems that the film was between the plans of Scorsese already from a pair of ann, and would have to be ready for 2010, the just time in order to allow the two lions of Hollywood to honor own engagements. De Niro has as soon as finished turning “Righteous kill”, to the flank of Al Pacino, and soon it will be on the fine set of “Everybody's”. Scorsese instead will direct pupillo the Leonardo di Caprio in very two films: “Shutter Island” and “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt”. Silence, is drawn from the novel of Shusaku Endo and will be dramatized from Jay Cocks. The history narrates of the martyrdom of two portuguese Jesuit missionaries, Sebastião Rodrigues and Francis Garrpe, in Japan of 1700.

Hi everyone! :D The article says more or less this (I apologize in advance for my english): The “golden team” Scorsese – De Niro, after “Cape Fear” and “Goodfellas”, together again for “Silence”. De Niro announced it while he was in Cannes, where “What just Happened?” premiered. The movie should be ready by 2010. De Niro just finished shooting “The righteous kill” with Al Pacino and he will be soon on the set of “Everybody’s fine”, while Scorsese is going to direct his pupil Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island (well, they obviously don’t know they started shooting some months ago) and The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. “Silence” is based on Shusaku Endo’s novel and it will be adapted by Jay Cocks. The movie is about the martyrdom of two portuguese missionaries (jesuits), Sebastião Rodrigues e Francis Garrpe, in 18th century Japan.

Ilaria, thank you!! :D The movie should be ready by 2010. Even if they mean the movie should start by 2010... that's something.

You're welcome! :D The movie should be ready by 2010. Even if they mean the movie should start by 2010... that's something. Yeah.I'm very interested in this project. Can't wait to see it. I hope Marty will shoot it before TroTR.

Thanks Will and Ilaria I've almost lost hope of even seeing this made. I'd like to think there's still room for a film like this especially one with DeNiro in it.

Hey... GOOD NEWS (ok, not yet confirmed, but fingers crossed !). Thanks a lot ILARIA for translation. I miss them...

Assuming he's still talking about Silence, here's De Niro again with an even earlier date... 2009: His long collaboration with Martin Scorsese -- which he ascribed to the fact it’s always been “a lot of fun to work” together -- should produce at least two more films, De Niro said. His next project with Scorsese, which he declined to detail, is one on which he’s already working and should be ready by 2009, he said. Earlier in an interview with the festival daily newspaper, De Niro had said he was “superstitious about talking about it.” from Variety

The fact that he says he's superstitious makes me think its Silence also, because as we all know it is a film Scorsese has had trouble getting off the ground. But all this speculation is starting to get repetitive but no less interesting, and I suspect that as Scorsese usually does, he will announce his next project during the post-production phase of Shutter Island. I'm hoping he will use the rather long post-production pahse (it does a appear a little linger that he accustomed to) to finalise a shooting script for Silence, which not since Casino, is he controibvuting an actual credited write to. But I think we can narrow down he's next project to either being Silence of Wolf of Wall Street. Either project sounds pretty interesting, and maybe he can start making films more closer to his sensibilities and own passions, which he hasnt done since Gangs (not a criticism however on The Aviator and The Departed). Shine a Light could be considered a passion prject though.

I'm not a specialist about Scorsese' films just a viewer of his films since my teen age ( in the 1978-1980s) and since 1998 I became a much "closer" viewer because of GANGS and DiCaprio (1998)... and the Internet...that is a fact. Sooo.. I have no real idea of how Scorsese think about his career... how he wants to "manage" it. I think the guy continues to make his way... with all the compromises you have to deal with in our times... Hard time, yes, but our time, nevertheless... You choose to give it up or not. He does not and continues to dig. He has not changed, it's the world around us that has changed. ??? Shhh....

It's all VERY confusing to me, because Scorsese himslef said his NEXT project after Shutter Island would be The Wolf of Wall Street, but it seems like all these other people, De Niro included, are saying Silence is next, or are eluding to it...

From this article: .................... Scorsese’s office door swings open. He’s needed in the Shutter Island edit. He waves away his assistant. “Five more minutes!” he says, adding that he wants to talk some more, but is worried that he might just be procrastinating to avoid the troublesome sequence next door. He says that his next movie, Silence, will surely be a challenge to all those who suspect he’s gone mainstream. “It’s set in 17th-century Japan, and it’s about the Jesuits and the persecution of the Christians at that time. And it’s going to have to be made in an entirely different way to the others.” He then talks about spirituality and about his migration, as a young man, from the church to the cinema. “I wasn’t capable of the selflessness of the priesthood,” he says, “but I was able to explore that in my movies instead.” He says that at the best of times, in the cinema, even now, he’s capable of being moved spiritually by film. “You can be taken out of yourself and transcend your experience,” he says. It happened to him only last week, he adds, at a private screening of Carlos Reygadas’s Silent Light. ....................