Directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons and Brendan Fraser, the new film ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ will skip this year’s awards season and is scheduled to premiered at the Cannes Film Festival next year.
Acclaimed author Eric Roth (‘A Star Is Born’ ‘Forrest Gump’ ‘The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button’) wrote the screenplay, adapted from the best-selling book of the same name by David Grann.
It tells the famous Indian murder mystery – in the 1920s in Oklahoma, the Osage Indians were originally the richest in the world on a per capita basis, and after the discovery of oil on their land, people gradually began to die.
The case urged the U.S. government to create a new law enforcement agency, known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the rise of FBI founder John Edgar Hoover: As the death toll rose, the new FBI set out to investigate the case, uncovering a horrific conspiracy.
It was one of the most appalling crimes in American history: the massacre of Indians by whites for profit.
Lily Gladstone plays Mollie Burkhart, an Osage who is married to Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), the nephew of a powerful local farmer (De Niro).
Jesse Plemons plays Tom Wright, an FBI agent investigating a murder, and Brendan Fraser plays WS Hamilton, a lawyer.
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