Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are making a new true crime film
After Silence, the intense opus about Catholic missionaries in Japan, Martin Scorsese is returning to form on his next two projects. In 2018, he'll release The Irishman, a classic Scorsese mob film with Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. If that wasn't enough vintage Scorsese, the director will follow up that film with an adaptation of the true crime thriller Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI with frequent collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio.
That's right. The dream team is back together for the first time since 2013's The Wolf of Wall Street, which was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Scorsese, and Best Actor for DiCaprio.
Killers of the Flower Moon, written by The New Yorker's David Grann, follows the murders of members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma in the 1920s after oil was discovered on their land. The mysterious deaths of the members of the tribe became one of the first major FBI homicide cases. As the book's synopsis reads, "In desperation, the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the bureau. The agents infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history."
As Variety notes, the script is being adapted by Oscar-winning writer Eric Roth (Forrest Gump and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button).
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