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.
This week, Tulsa World reports that Scorsese will be filming the movie in Osage County, and the news outlet also reveals that Robert De Niro will reportedly star alongside DiCaprio!
The site notes that De Niro will be playing William Hale, one of the book’s main characters. De Niro and DiCaprio first appeared on screen together in 1993’s This Boy’s Life.
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.