Martin Scorcese and Shūsaku Endō

The former is set to film the latter's novel — Persecuted Christians in moviemaker's sights. I'm hoping the film is better than the novel, which told an absolutely compelling tale, but whose narrative structure I found lacking in verisimilitude; the device of realting events through the letters of a Portuguese priest to his superiors seemed untenable toward the end of the story. Silence (2010) has the potential of bieng one of those films that succeeds by taking a good story from a poorly executed novel.