Director of the Oscarie Prize winner Martin Scorsese (Taxi driver, Goodfellas, Killer of the Flower Moon) carried out access to the writer, direct and produce adaptations of the “Gilead” series of the author Marilynne Robinson, starting from House For Apple TV+.
Scorsese will create the first film together with the director Todd Field (In the bedroom, Small children, Tar), following an agreement mediated by Ellen Levine of Trident Media Group and Susan Schulman of the literary agency of the same name.
The first film, Houseis in the processing of Apple with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to the star. Field, a candidate for Multi -academy Award, is expected to produce together with the Sikelia productions in Scorsese, the productions of Way Appian Way in DiCaprio and Lbi Entertainment, the company managed by Scorsese and Dicaprio’s Talent Manager, Rick Yorn. The details have not yet been published on the plans to adapt the remaining books of the series.
House It is the second of the four novels in Robinson’s Gilead series that examines the faith and rural life set in the city of Fictional Plains of Gilead, Iowa. It is preceded by the Prize for the Award for Critics Circle Awinn, Vanning – Vannante Gilead and succeeded by Lila (also an NBCC -VINCIATORE Award) e Jack.
In his starry review, PW Called the 2008 novel “an elegant variation on the parable of the return of the prodigal son” which “marked a fierce claim of a divine recognition behind the rituals of the house”.
Scorsese, a practicing Catholic, has previously adapted two influential novels rooted in Christian history: the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis of 1955 The last temptation of ChristIn 1988 and the novel by Shūsaku Endō of 1966 SilenceIn 2016. Robinson’s novels are deeply informed by his beliefs as a congregationalist, a Calvinist tradition to which the characters of the Gilead cycle also register.
Stay tuned for updates on the project while developing.
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By Jessica Fisher
Source: Geek Tyrant
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