Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio Confirmed To Star in Martin Scorsese's KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

It doesn’t look like Martin Scorsese is retiring from making movies after all. For the past few years, he’s been developing a project called Killers of the Flower Moon and both Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio have been circling the project. Well, during the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Robert De Niro was presented with the organization's lifetime achievement award by Leonardo DiCaprio. It was here that DiCaprio confirmed they would be working together on the film, saying:

“I've learned so much from the both of them. I'm fortunate to call them collaborators, Bob since This Boy's Life and Marty since Gangs of New York. And after 30 years, to work alongside Bob again in Martin Scorsese's upcoming drama Killers of the Flower Moon is a true honor.”

De Niro and DiCaprio first worked together on the 1993 film, This Boys Life. They also worked together in Marvin’s Room, so it’s pretty cool that they will be reuniting after all these years in a film that Scorsese will direct.

The film is based on the non-fiction book by David Grann, with a script by Eric Roth. The story is described as follows:

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.

This sounds like an extremely interesting story, and it’s a perfect project for Scorsese to take on with these two super talented actors. This is a book that I’ve got to read before seeing the movie. I’ve heard from a lot of family and friends that have read it that it’s great.