Few directors working today can maintain the consistency of Martin Scorsese. The New York auteur has been an omnipresent force in the film industry since the early 1970s, producing acclaimed urban dramas with startling regularity. Scorsese’s upcoming film, Silence, is a historical drama that will take the director out of the city and across the Pacific, for a movie headlined by Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spider-Man) and Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Force Awakens). In addition to these two up and coming headliners, Scorsese’s upcoming film will reunite him with a familiar face.

After being in the works for about 20 years, Martin Scorsese finally has full funding to get his adaptation of Shusaku Endo's novel Silence off the ground. Production was originally supposed to begin this past fall, but it took a little long to get all the money together to make it happen. Now Deadline reports Fábrica de Cine and SharpSword Films have boarded the project as producers and are fully financing the film. The cast is also solidified with Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver and Tadanobu Asano (though Ken Watanabe was once involved, he's no longer in the film).