Love and Betrayal and Leo: Tensions Boil Over After Oil is Found on Osage Nation Territory In Apple’s New Period Film
Martin Scorsese is coming back to the theaters.
The director returns with Killers of the Flower Moon, his first narrative feature since the 2019 film The Irishman. The based-on-a-true-story comes from David Grann’s novel about the brutal murders of dozens of Osage people in Oklahoma throughout the 1920s. Both Scorsese’s film and Grann’s eponymously-titled book follow the unlikely romance of Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone) over the period when the Osage tribe discovered oil on their territory, much to the dismay of the white people who put them there.
The movie’s official logline reads, “At the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnight. The wealth of these Native Americans immediately attracted white interlopers, who manipulated, extorted, and stole as much Osage money as they could before resorting to murder. Based on a true story, Killers of the Flower Moon is an epic western crime saga, where real love crosses paths with unspeakable betrayal.”
The movie, scripted by Eric Roth, also stars Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, Brendan Fraser, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, Jillian Dion, William Belleau, Louis Cancelmi, Tatanka Means, Michael Abbot Jr., Pat Healy, Scott Shepard, Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson.
Killers of the Flower Moon was produced alongside Imperative Entertainment, Sikelia Productions and Appian Way. The film world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May and has been described by Variety as an Oscar contender. You can view the trailer above.
The Apple Original film has set its wide theatrical release for October 20th, and will subsequently stream on Apple TV+.