Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio to reunite for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon: Report
Two of Martin Scorsese’s most iconic muses might lastly reunite on display. In response to Deadline, Robert De Niro is negotiating to seem alongside his This Boy’s Life and Marvin’s Room co-star Leonardo Di Caprio in Killers of the Flower Moon.
Primarily based on David Grann’s true-crime novel-of-the-same-name, the 1920s-set story revolves across the gristly murders of the Osage Indiana tribe, who turned the richest of us on the planet in a single day when oil was discovered underneath their land in Oklahoma. Because the our bodies started piling up, the FBI received concerned, uncovering one of the crucial chilling conspiracies in American historical past. Yeah, sounds proper up Scorsese’s alley.
De Niro would play serial killer William Hale, making this his ninth collaboration with Scorsese following Imply Streets, Taxi Driver, New York, New York, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, Goodfellas, On line casino, and this October’s The Irishman.
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DiCaprio isn’t too far behind, having labored with the filmmaker on Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, and The Wolf of Wall Avenue. By comparability, Flowers would mark his sixth collaboration with Scorsese.
“Once I learn David Grann’s ebook, I instantly began seeing it — the folks, the settings, the motion — and I knew that I needed to make it right into a film,” Scorsese stated final fall when it was first introduced. “I’m so excited to be working with Eric Roth and reuniting with Leo DiCaprio to carry this actually unsettling American story to the display.”
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At present, Scorsese is scouting places for the movie in Oklahoma, the place he hopes to shoot in Osage County. In response to Osage Information, he spent over two hours collectively assembly with Chief Standing Bear on the Osage Nation campus.
“We wish to be certain your folks have every part they want, by way of Osage artisans, Osage language … these persons are nonetheless right here locally and would love to assist,” Standing Bear stated.
In fact, Scorsese’s best hurdle lingers forward with The Irishman, significantly whether or not or not the unprecedented de-aging works or flops. We’ll discover out in October, when the true crime drama premieres on the New York Movie Competition — and afterward Netflix.
