Scorsese to shoot 'Silence' in Taiwan

Ang Lee's 'Life of Pi', which was partly shot in Taiwan, has reportedly inspired Martin Scorsese to shoot his next film 'Silence' in Taiwan rather than Japan.
Lee won the best director Oscar for the story of a ship-wrecked Indian boy afloat in ocean with a Bengal tiger.
Scorsese and a small production team have visited Taiwan on an eight-day trip to scout locations for the movie. They visited Taipei, Taichung and Hualien in their search for potential film locations for the movie, which is based on a Japanese novel set in Japan and is a pet project of the Oscar-winning director, reported the Wrap.

Scorsese was photographed scouting for location in the country recently.
The director apparently feels Taiwan would be more apt for the period film as it still contains architecture and village scenes from the Japanese Colonial Period.