Lily Gladstone Joins Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Martin Scorsese has cast Lily Gladstone (Certain Women, First Cow) to star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro in Killers of the Flower Moon.
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.
Gladstone will take on the role of Mollie Burkhart, “an Osage married to Ernest Burkhart (DiCaprio), who is the nephew of a powerful local rancher (De Niro).” When previously talking about the film, Scorsese explained:
“We think it’s a western. It happened in 1921-1922 in Oklahoma. They are certainly cowboys, but they have cars and also horses. The film is mainly about the Osage, an Indian tribe that was given horrible territory, which they loved because they said to themselves that Whites would never be interested in it. Then we discovered oil there and, for about ten years, the Osage became the richest people in the world, per capita. Then, as with the Yukon and the Colorado mining regions, the vultures disembark, the White man, the European arrives, and all was lost. There, the underworld had such control over everything that you were more likely to go to jail for killing a dog than for killing an Indian.”
The product is being produced by Apple Studios and is being executive produced by Brie Larson, and it’s being written and executive produced by Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich). This is going to be a great film.
Source: Deadline