Killers Of The Flower Moon‘s first official trailer is a twisted love story
Martin Scorsese's Killers Of The Flower Moon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone, premieres October 20
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Cinephiles have been waiting for a real taste of Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated drama, Killers Of The Flower Moon. Following a premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, the movie is set to make its theatrical debut on October 20 before streaming on Apple TV+. The first official trailer for the film, released on Wednesday, is a proportionally tiny bite of the three-hour feature, but it’s sure to whet fans’ appetite for the full thing.
The film centers on the “improbable romance” of Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), a white man and a member of the oil-rich Osage Nation, respectively. The trailer shows Ernest caught between two worlds, torn between the alluring greed of his fellow white settlers (represented by the silver-tongued Robert De Niro) and his wife’s grief over her family’s tragedy.
DiCaprio and Gladstone steal the show in the trailer (and Gladstone, in particular, received rave reviews out of Cannes), but the footage also offers a glimpse of recent Oscar winner Brendan Fraser as well as Jesse Plemons, whose character was sent from DC to investigate murders of members of the Osage Nation, much to Ernest’s chagrin.
Killers Of The Flower Moon was adapted for the screen by Scorsese and co-writer Eric Roth based on the nonfiction book of the same name by David Grann. “My great interest was how some of these guys could have done what they did,” the filmmaker said earlier this year at CinemaCon, attended by The A.V. Club. He described the story as “a natural tragedy,” citing the love story as “the heart of the picture.” He wanted to explore how a betrayal could occur between two people who were “really in love with each other.” DiCaprio’s character developed “line by line, scene by scene,” Scorsese said. “We kept working on that script until the last day of shooting.”
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i thought the whole thing was that plemons was the lead and dicaprio was more of a supporting role? obviously i get putting leo front and center from a marketing perspective, but i was expecting a lot more plemons in this all things considered. anyway, looks like de niro is giving a pretty boisterous performance, nice to see he still has that in him. this also looks very very expensive and i think that’s great.
My understanding is that the book focuses on the Plemons character. DiCaprio thought the other role was more interesting, and the script was also reworked to focus on the Osage side of things rather than the FBI side.
I mean, it focuses on the crimes he did, but really the focus is on the Native Americans who got rich on the land they were given (which was assumed to be worthless at the time) and then how white people killed them and stole their money. Despite the promotional material, it is not a white person’s story.
I’ll believe that when I see it.
must be a case of broken telephone because a lot of the initial reports were about about how dicaprio was taking the supporting role and plemons was taking the lead. i guess they just changed who the lead was after he made the change!
It evolves as the book progresses. DiCaprio’s character is in the middle of the theft of oil rights via murder, which makes up the first act. Plemons’ is the first person sent to investigate a completely lawless situation, which doesn’t happen for a while.
The guy DiCaprio plays is sort of the white man’s entre into the story. I’ve read the book and the whole thing is absolutely insane. [SPOILERS, ON BACKGROUND AT LEAST] The Osage are dumped on a reservation that is thought to be absolutely worthless and nigh unlivable, and after discovering oil Osage County becomes the wealthiest in the U.S. People in the tribe have more money than they can spend, literally abandoning luxury cars when they run out of gas. An Osage’s share of the oil revenue is hereditary and can be passed via marriage, so white people start showing up, marrying Osage women, then brazenly killing them. There are a few who collect the shares of entire families this way, with zero fear of being punished since the state and local authorities are fully in on it. The book’s subtitle is the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI because it took Washington’s intervention to stop it all. It’s about as ugly a story as you’ll come across.
So, is this part of the Spider-verse?
Just wish he’d hurry up with his H. H. Holmes movie so I can see it before Russia nuke the planet.
That’s dead in the water I’m pretty sure
“We kept working on that script until the last day of shooting.”
Wow, just like every other movie.
there sure is a surprising amount of shite CGI in that trailer. pretty distracting.
Fuck this looks good.