Marilynne Robinson’s Home is headed to the big screen courtesy of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, Publishers Weekly reports.
Robinson’s book, published in 2008 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is the second of the four novels in her Gilead series, which launched in 2004 with Gilead and which follows the Boughtons, a family living in rural Iowa. A critic for Kirkus wrote of Home, which was a National Book Award finalist, “Comes astonishingly close to matching its amazing predecessor in beauty and power.”
Scorsese, the legendary filmmaker whose movies include Taxi Driver, The Departed, and The Wolf of Wall Street, will write and direct the Home adaptation for Apple Original Films. DiCaprio (Titanic, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) will star in the film and will produce alongside Scorsese and Todd Field, the actor and director of In the Bedroom, Little Children, and Tár.
Scorsese and DiCaprio are collaborating on another literary adaptation, a film based on David Grann’s nonfiction book The Wager. Scorsese and DiCaprio previously teamed up on the film adaptation of Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon; the film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards.
Apple also plans to adapt the other novels in Robinson’s Gilead series, Gilead, Lila, and Jack. No details about those projects have been announced, according to Publishers Weekly.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
