‘Home’: Martin Scorsese & Leonardo DiCaprio Reuniting For Marilynne Robinson Adaptation At Apple

Veteran filmmaker Martin Scorsese has been mulling over a bunch of potential next movie projects since finishing up “Killers of The Flower Moon” (things like “The Wager,” “The Devil In The White City,” a Frank Sinatra biopic, “The Life of Jesus,” and a Hawaii-set crime drama), and the latest one, “Home,” is set to see him reunite with his modern muse, Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Revenant”).

What looks like an official press release from Apple via Publishers Weekly, an announcement has been made that sees Scorsese set to direct, write, and produce an adaptation of the Marilynne Robison novel “Home” with the help of fellow director Todd Field and work on bringing the Gilead series to life. DiCaprio is also mentioned as the film’s lead, making this his seventh collaboration with Scorsese after films such as “Killers of The Flower Moon,” “The Departed,” “Gangs of New York,” “Shutter Island,” “The Aviator,” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

READ MORE: ‘The Devil In The White City’: Martin Scorsese & Leonardo DiCaprio’s True Crime Serial Killer Movie Is Back On At 20th Century Studios

“Home” is part of Robinson’s Gilead series examining a bunch of elements such as faith and rural life set in the fictional plains town of Gilead, Iowa.

The novel’s original logline via Chapters Indigo reads:

Glory Boughton has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. soon her brother, Jack—the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years—comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with torment and pain. A troubled boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. He is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Reverend Boughton’s most beloved child. Brilliant, beguiling, lovable, and wayward, Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory and engages painfully with John Ames, his godfather, and namesake.

Support independent movie journalism to keep it alive. Sign up for The Playlist Newsletter. All the content you want and, oh, right, it’s free.

Scorsese’s Sikelia Productions and DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions will be producing the pic that is officially set at Apple Original Films, where the director had just made “Killers of The Flower Moon.”

A production start or release date hasn’t been made official, given the deal seemingly was just finalized with Apple, but we’re sure those details will be revealed down the line.

The Playlist

Website |  + postsBio ⮌

This author does not have any more posts