Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro Share Intense Scene in Clip From KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

A new short clip has been released from the highly anticipated and long-awaited Martin Scorsese-directed film, Killers of the Flower Moon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. The film is based on David Grann’s book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. The movie is set in 1920s Oklahoma and 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.

In the clip, we see DiCaprio’s character, Ernest Burkhart, as he tries to explain a murder-for-hire hit gone wrong to his uncle (De Niro), a powerful local rancher by the name of William Hale.

The pair are joined in the film by Lily Gladstone, Brendan Fraser and  Jesse Plemons. The full synopsis for the film reads:

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.

Check out the intense scene below, and watch Killers of the Flower Moon when it’s released in theatres on October 20th.