Veteran director Martin Scorsese’s Silence will release on December 23, said a Deadline report. Paramount Pictures, who acquired the film’s US distribution rights in July 2014, announced that it will open Silence in limited release on December 23, and give it a wide release in January 2017.
The decision, reportedly, was taken keeping in mind the upcoming awards season. Last year, 20th Century Fox/Regency had given their Oscar-winner The Revenant a limited release in Christmas and a wider release in January, just ahead of the Oscar Awards.
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Silence, which is Scorsese’s fifth film with Paramount, is one of the most-anticipated Oscar releases. One of his dream projects, Scorsese had been trying to adapt the 1966 Shusaku Endo novel to cinema since 1991. Set in the 17th century, Silence narrates the story of Portuguese Jesuits who embark on a journey to Japan to find their missing mentor, and spread Christianity while risking their lives.
The film stars Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, Adam Driver, Ciaran Hinds, Tadanobu Asano, Issey Ogata, Yosuke Kubozuka, and Yoshi Oida.