“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.

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.

I’ve always said I want to work with [Martin] Scorsese, if he does a film with women,” Kidman said. “I’d love to work with Kathryn Bigelow. I’d love to work with Spike Jones. I’d love to work with PTA [Paul Thomas Anderson].

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.