Why it took 28 years to bring Martin Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ to the screen Funding, legal issues and rewrites delayed the iconic filmmaker’s religious epic. Check out this story on thetimesherald.com: http://usat.ly/2ic2WqG Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver star as 17th-century missionaries who travel to Japan and face persecution as they try to rescue their mentor, played by Liam Neeson.