Martin Scorsese is set to develop
The Heart of the Matter and may possibly be directing, reported Variety. The movie is based on a Graham Greene novel to be scripted by Don MacPherson.
Greene wrote the novel in 1948, and Scorsese read it as a young man and never forgot it. Like Greene's
The Quiet American, it revolves around a secure, mature man living in a place far from home who is plunged into moral crisis by passion.
Story concerns a scrupulously honest, married Catholic police official serving in a West African country during wartime who gets into trouble when he falls in love with another woman while attempting to break up a diamond smuggling operation. Before he knows it, the man has borrowed money from a blackmailer, he's sent his wife away on vacation, and he's in way over his head.