Martin Scorsese has premiered the new trailer for his latest film, Killers of the Flower Moon.
Killers of the Flower Moon is based on the non-fiction book of the same name by David Grann. It explores the murders of native Osage peoples in Oklahoma in the 1920s after oil deposits were discovered on their land, in a saga that came to be called the Reign of Terror.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone star in the film as Ernest and Mollie Burkhart, a married couple living in Oklahoma at the time of the murders. Robert De Niro portrays Ernest’s uncle, William Hale, a prominent cattle raiser on the Osage reservation. Meanwhile, Jesse Plemons plays Tom White, a BOI agent investigating the murders, and Brendan Fraser is cast as Hale’s attorney.
The film’s cast also includes John Lithgow, Tantoo Cardinal, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, and Jillian Dion, along with musicians Jack White, Jason Isbell, and Sturgill Simpson.
Isbell recently spoke to Consequence about his time on the set of Killers of the Flower Moon, which included a humorous encounter with De Niro. “I said, ‘I’m really happy to meet you, and I’m looking forward to watching your work and glad to be part of this.’ And he looked at me like I was crazy,” Isbell told Consequence as part of our latest cover story. “And it took me a few days to realize: He thought I was doing some kind of method thing where I was like, a character all the time. And it took him a few days to figure out that this is really how I talk.”
Killers of the Flower Moon will premiere in select theaters on October 6th, before receiving a wide release on October 20th. It will then stream globally on AppleTV+.
