First Look: Martin Scorsese’s ‘Silence’

Martin Scorsese is back!

When we last saw Scorsese he was making Leonardo DiCaprio look like a wolf on Wall Street. That was three years ago. His latest, the much-anticipated Silence from Paramount Pictures, is set to arrive in theaters on December 23, 2016.

If this trailer is any indication it will be great. A historical drama based on Shūsaku Endō’s 1966 novel of the same name, stars Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge), Adam Driver (TV’s “Girls”, Paterson), Liam Neeson, Tadanobu Asano, and Ciarán Hinds. Set in the seventeenth century, it follows two young Portuguese Jesuit priests (Garfield, Driver) who face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor (Neeson) and propagate Christianity.