Martin Scorsese may have put some previously announced projects like “The Wager” and his long-rumored Frank Sinatra biopic on the back burner, but the prolific auteur has teased another adaptation in the works: bringing Marilynne Robinson’s novel “ Home ” to the screen. Scorsese told AP that while his “A Life of Jesus” film has been optioned, he is working around the “scheduling issue” of adapting Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robinson’s book. “It’s an option but I’m still working on it,” Scorsese said of “A Life of Jesus,” adding, “There’s a very strong possibility of me doing a film version of Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Home,’ but that’s a scheduling issue.
” “Home” is part of the Robinson’s Gilead-set series. The novel takes place in a remote fictional rural Iowan town in 1956, with a woman returning to her hometown to care for her ailing father. The novel is rife with philosophical references and Biblical quotations, with the central themes being mortality and theology.
The novel synopsis reads: “Glory Boughton, aged 38, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father, Reverend Robert Boughton. Soon her brother, Jack — the prodigal son of the family, gone for 20 years — comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain.” Scorsese is also looking to reflect on his own family legacy.
The director told AP that there is a “possibility of me going back an.
