‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Trailer Sends Leonardo DiCaprio to 1920s Oklahoma
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Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon may not have its starry cast available to promote it ahead of its release next month, but Apple is betting the footage for the movie will speak for itself.
The Apple Original Films project debuted a new trailer Wednesday ahead of Paramount releasing it in theaters Oct. 20. It will later stream on Apple, which brought the film to the Cannes Film Festival in May, where it earned strong reviews.
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Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro and Jesse Plemons star in Flower Moon, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Set in 1920s Oklahoma, it is based on on David Grann’s nonfiction book of the same name. It chronicles a series of murders of the Osage people following an oil boom and the subsequent FBI investigations into the killings, which became known as the Reign of Terror. Scorsese penned the script with Eric Roth.
The project, which clocks in at nearly three-and-a-half hours, is one of the bigger films opting to stick with its release plans amid the SAG-AFTRA strike, which prevents stars from promoting their work. Dune: Part Two departed its November date for next spring, while Sony’s Kraven the Hunter left October for August.
Writing out of Cannes, The Hollywood Reporter chief film critic David Rooney noted the film’s “sprawling, densely plotted work that demands a lot of its audience. But the three-and-a-half-hour running time is fully justified in an escalating tragedy that never loosens its grip — a sordid illustration of historical erasure with echoes in today’s bitterly divisive political gamesmanship.”
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