Liam Neeson joins ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ star Andrew Garfield for Martin Scorsese’s ‘Silence’
Martin Scorsese settles Silence lawsuit, agreeing to helm the film as casting news ramps up.
Deadline reports Neeson will star with Andrew Garfield and Ken Watanabe in Silence, the Martin Scorsese-directed adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s novel about 17th century Jesuits who to try bring Christianity to isolated Japan.
Over a year producer Cecchi Gori went after the famous director for bowing out of the project, a breach of written contract by pushing back his commitment.
“The matter has been settled in its entirety,” said a 1-page order from LA Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis.
The film is being financed by Emmett/Furla/Oasis, Corsan and A1. Emmett/Furla/Oasis just funded Lone Survivor.
The script is by Jay Cocks and Scorsese and production will begin in Taiwan later this year.
Neeson is set for a big payday with a role in Taken 3.
Neeson, who next stars in the action film Non-Stop, voices a role in The Lego Movie, and stars in the Seth MacFarlane-directed A Million Ways To Die In The West and A Walk Among The Tombstones.