One of the most monstrous crimes in American history was chronicled in David Grann’s best-selling book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, and we recently learned that Martin Scorsese will be in the director’s chair for a feature film adaptation. His leading man? Frequent collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio.
Deadline brings us an update on the project today, reporting out of CineEurope that Paramount has closed a deal to finance and distribute the Scorsese-DiCaprio film.
“In 1920s Oklahoma, the Osage Nation were the richest people per capita in the world, after oil was discovered under their land. And then they were murdered, one by one. As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case and unraveled a chilling conspiracy and one of the most monstrous crimes in American history.”
The film was penned by Eric Roth, and it’s being produced by Scorsese alongside Imperative Entertainment’s Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas, along with Sikelia Productions’ Emma Tillinger Koskoff and DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions.