Some people get calmer with age, but Martin Scorsese is not one of them: the master director has currently planned several mammoth projects. This now includes a film for the Killers of the Flower Moon Streaming Service Apple TV+, in which Leonardo DiCaprio should play along.
Martin Scorsese filmed with Leonardo DiCaprio celebrated book template
As publisher Weekly reports, Apple TV+ Adapt the author Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead book series. The books play in a town of the same name in the US state of Iowa. The first novel in the series, which is also called Gilead, was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 2005. Martin Scorsese is supposed to implement the second novel called Home as a feature film. Collider quotes from the novel’s synopsis:
Reverend Boughton’s rebellious son Jack has returned home after twenty years. Clever and torn in his youth, the alcoholic now wears two decades of dark secrets around with you. He gets together with his traditionalist father, but remains his intimate child. While Jack is trying to save the relationship with his father, the bond increases to his sister Glory, who with a broken heart [nach Gilead] comes.
According to the publisher Weekly, Home deals with topics of faith in rural America and uses a variation of the biblical parable of the lost son. Scorsese seems to be created for an adaptation: In many of his works, the Christian faith is an issue, it explicitly deals with the last temptation of Christ and Silence.
It is not yet known what role Leonardo DiCaprio takes on in adaptation. In addition, there is no information about whether Scorsese will also implement the other novels of the Gilead series. A confirmation of Scorseses or AppletV+ is still pending.
When does Martin Scorseses film come to Apple TV+?
Since the project is at a very early stage, there is a home adaptation for scorseseses’ home adaptation No start date yet. The master director is currently working on various films, including a Frank Sinatra-Biopic. So when the home adaptation appears is difficult to assess at the moment.