The 78-year-old veteran American director Martin Scorsese has begun preparing for his latest film projects. The movie “Killers of the Flower Moon”, in its first collaboration with “Apple”, and with a huge project, the initial estimates of its budget reached 200 million dollars. The production work officially started on April 19.
The film is based on a non-fiction book with the same title as the film, with the subtitle “Osage County Crimes and the Birth of the FBI” by American journalist David Gran, and released in 2017.
The film was scheduled to start filming in March 2020, but it was postponed due to the Corona pandemic, and the matter was repeated more than once until Apple announced that the production phase had actually begun last April.
The book deals with a series of investigations into a series of murders that afflicted the Osagi people in Osage County, Oklahoma during the 1920s, after the discovery of oil on their lands. The court had granted the Usagi people the right to benefit from the oil discovered on their land, which made them prey to greedy farm owners.
The murders attracted the attention of the newly created FBI, and Scorsese’s handling of the story is expected to revolve from the point of view of the FBI and the Osagi people.
In an interview conducted by Martin Scorsese in February of last year, he stated that the movie “Killers of the Moon Flower” would be of the type of American western films, and it is the first time that a work of this kind has been presented.
The events of the film take place between 1921 and 1922 in the state of Oklahoma, and Scorsese comments that there were cowboys at this time, but the cars were next to the horses.
The film revolves mainly around the Usagi, an Indian tribe that has given a miserable territory to live on, and the tribe loved this miserable region, thinking that the white man would never covet it. Then the discovery of oil took place in the depths of this region, and the members of the tribe turned into rich, and as happened in other American regions and territories, eagles landed, and the European white man came to seize everything with his greed.
“Everything was under control, so much so that you were more likely to go to jail if you killed a dog than if you killed an Indian,” Scorsese says.
In his new movie, Scorsese brings together two of the actors closest to his heart, who have a long friendship and work relationship with them. They are the two Academy Award winning actors, Robert De Niro, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
De Niro is the actor who cooperated with Scorsese the most with 7 films, the last of which was “The Irishman” two years ago. As for DiCaprio, he co-starred in 5 films directed by Scorsese, the last of which was “The Wolf of Wall.” Street) in 2013.
Scorsese’s previous film, “The Irish”, had suffered a stumble in the production process after its budget ballooned, which prompted Paramount to sell the film rights to Netflix, a scenario that was repeated again with the new Scorsese movie. ; His rights were transferred from Paramount to another electronic broadcasting network, Apple, but – in addition to the inflated budget – there was an additional reason for Paramount to back out of the project.
And it was decided – according to the first agreement – that Leonardo DiCaprio would play the role of “Tom White”, the character of the hero in the film, but DiCaprio turned his attention to another character more mysterious and complex; She is the character of “Ernst Packhardt”, who switches between being a hero and a villain through the events of the film. DiCaprio’s shift to this role prompted Paramount executives to question the commercial value and potential financial return, so they decided to sell the rights to Apple, and Paramount would distribute the film internationally.
After DiCaprio moved to the role of Ernest Packhart; Scorsese had to search for an alternate actor for the role of FBI agent “Tom White”, and he chose actor Jesse Plemons, after the script was modified to balance the space given to the two characters, especially after DiCaprio requested some adjustments to his new character.
The filming was scheduled to start in March 2020, but it was postponed due to the Corona pandemic, and the matter was repeated more than once until Apple announced that the production phase had actually begun last April. It is expected that the filming work will continue until the end of the summer, which means that the film may be ready for showing by the end of 2021, but it is more likely that the film will be launched during the next year.
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