When Martin Scorsese was a child growing up in New York's Little Italy, he would gaze up at the figures he saw around St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. “Who are these people? What is a saint?” Scorsese recalls.

“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.

Even for the most proactive Martin Scorsese completionists, there is always one blind spot in their mission to watch every single one of the iconic director's films. Those who love all his work long to watch Kundun,

Nicole Kidman has a list of directors she’d love to work with, and Martin Scorsese is one of them. There’s just one problem. Speaking to Vanity Fair in a Q&A published on Wednesday3, Kidman, 57, threw some shade Scorsese’s way for his history of writing films centered entirely on male characters.

“Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints,” premiering Sunday on the Fox Nation streaming service, is hosted and narrated by the filmmaker and dramatizes the lives of eight Catholic saints.

Martin Scorsese might make a film adaptation of Marilynne Robinson's Home before doing his The Life of Jesus movie. Following the release of 2023's Killers of the Flower Moon, Scorsese has announced a handful of new projects he either intends or hopes to make.