DiCaprio, meanwhile, is teaming up with Scorsese for a seventh feature after The Wolf of Wall Street, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Aviator and Gangs of New York.
Killers of the Flower Moon is De Niro's tenth collaboration with Scorsese, following Taxi Driver, Cape Fear, Mean Streets, Casino, The King of Comedy, The Irishman, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and New York, New York. The latest epic-and inevitable awards show behemoth-by renowned director Martin Scorsese is the Western mystery Killers of the Flower Moon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone.īased on the true crime book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann, it follows the investigation into deaths of several Native Americans in Oklahoma who had become wealthy following the discovery of oil beneath tribal land at the turn of the 20th century.īut what might sound like a straightforward whodunnit is complicated by the racism of the time and setting: as one lawman remarks in the movie, 'You got a better chance of convicting a guy for kicking a dog than killing an Indian.' What follows is a compelling exploration of greed, corruption, power, and murder.
