John Lithgow Joins Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese' KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
John Lithgow is the latest actor to join the cast of director Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Lithgow will take on the role of a prosecutor.
The film is based on David Grann’s novel, and the story is set in 1920s Oklahoma. It depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror. Here’s a description of the story:
At the end of the nineteenth century, the Osage Indians were driven onto a presumed worthless expanse of land in northeastern Oklahoma. But their territory turned out to be atop one of the largest oil deposits in the United States; to obtain that oil, prospectors were required to pay the tribe for leases and royalties. By the 1920s, the members of Osage Nation had become the wealthiest people per capita in the world. And then the Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances.
Lithgow joins an impressive ensemble cast that includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, and Brendan Fraser. DiCaprio plays Ernest Burkhart, Gladstone plays Mollie Burkhart, an Osage married to Ernest, who is nephew of a powerful local rancher, who is played by De Niro. Plemons will play the lead FBI agent investigating the murders, and Fraser will take on the role of a lawyer named WS Hamilton.
The script for the film was written by Eric Roth, who previously said the movie will be “nothing we’ve ever seen” and that it’ll be “one for the ages.” No release date yet for the film, but it will be coming to Apple TV+ in 2022.
Source: Variety