ODEON Magazine December 2016 | Page 7

Silence
Men on a Mission!
After a threeyear hiatus,
Martin Scorsese
follows up his 1980s
exposé The Wolf of
Wall Street with this
epic historical drama.
Set in the 17th century,
it stars Andrew Garfield
and Adam Driver as
devout Jesuit priests.
These brave men of the
cloth face violence and
persecution when they
travel to Japan to spread
the word of the Lord and
search for their missing
mentor (Liam Neeson).
Based on the novel
of the same name
by Japanese author
Shûsaku Endô, Scorsese
has been working on
this so-called “passion
project” since 1991.
Twenty-six years later
Silence is finally
reaching cinema screens
and those in the know
are touting it as a major
Academy Award
contender. With that
director and those stars,
it stands to reason that
this one isn’t going to go
quietly into the night.

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T2: Trainspotting
Lean and mean but are they clean?
It’s time to choose
life all over again
this January as drug
addicts Renton, Begbie, Sick
Boy and Spud burst back
onto our screens!
Loosely based on the Irvine
Welsh novel, Porno, this
follow-up to the now classic
Trainspotting is set 20
years after the first film
(which – believe it or not
– was released exactly 20 years
ago) and sees Danny Boyle
(Slumdog Millionaire) back
in the director’s chair.
Also returning are original
cast members Ewan McGregor
(The Impossible), Ewen

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Bremner (Great Expectations),
Jonny Lee Miller (Dark
Shadows) and Robert Carlyle
(28 Weeks Later).
The plot is being kept
largely under wraps but author
Welsh (who stars in the film
as Mikey Forrester) did reveal
the following during a candid
interview with Vice Magazine:
“The main element of the story
is basically Renton, Begbie,
Sick Boy and Spud getting
back together again, and it
tells the story of them getting
involved in the vice industry
in a very innovative way.”
Welcome backs, boys – we’ve
missed you!

• Eighties icons Mel Gibson and Sean Penn have been cast in period drama The Professor and the Madman, due in 2017

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