‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ by Martin Scorsese: release date, cast, synopsis and more details

Martin Scorsese’s new film, ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’, will be one of the great releases of 2023. The legendary director meets two of his fetish actors, Robert de Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, in a project that could be presented at the next edition of the Cannes Film Festival and star in the 2024 Oscars season (following in the wake of the Oscars 2023). We collect everything we know about ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: release date, cast, synopsis and more.

After making his mark on Netflix threefold with the movie ‘The Irishman’ (one of the best Netflix original movies), the documentary ‘Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story’ and the miniseries ‘Let’s Pretend New York is a city’ (which was counted among the best Netflix series in 2021), Scorsese returns to the big screen with an ambitious adaptation of ‘The Flower Moon Killers: Crimes in the Osage Nation and the Birth of the FBI‘ by David Grannpublished in 2017. It is a Paramount production, although, after suffering problems during production that inflated the budget to 200 million dollars, they sold the rights to Apple to be their international distributor.

Now, it seems that the film will finally see the light of day in 2023, despite the fact that some would already have wanted to count it among the best films of 2022. Note: We tell you everything that is known to date about Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’.

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: release date

Rumors already suggest that the film will be presented within the framework of the Cannes Film Festival next May 2023, so the theatrical release date for ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ would likely be pushed back to fall 2023.

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: cast

The cast of ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ includes some old acquaintances from Martin Scorsese’s filmography. Most notably, the film will star Robert de Niro as local businessman William Hale and Leonardo DiCaprio as his nephew Ernest Burkhart. Interestingly, neither De Niro nor Brukhart are the good guys in this story, rather the opposite.

Who will try to uncover their miseries will instead be Jesse Plemons as FBI agent Tom White. Plemons already worked with Scorsese in ‘The Irishman’ with a very small role. The main cast is completed with Lily Gladstone as Mollie Burkharta woman from the Osage Nation (the Native American community at the center of the story), John Lithgow as Prosecutor Leaward and Brendan Fraser as W. S. Hamilton. Let’s remember that Fraser is one of the nominees for Best Actor at the 2023 Oscars, and perhaps next year he will have statuette opportunities again with this role.

Along with those mentioned, the cast of ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ also includes Tantoo Cardinal like Lizzie Q. Jade Myers Face like Anna Brown, JaNaeCollins like Reta, Jillian Dion like Minnie, William Belleau like henry roan Louis Cancelmi like Kelsie Morrison and Jason Isbel like Bill Smith, among others.

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: duration

According to Showbiz 411the duration of ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ will be 3 hours and 20 minutesalthough there is still no official confirmation.

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: synopsis

Martin Scorsese’s new film is based on true eventscompiled by the book ‘The Flower Moon Killers: Crimes in the Osage Nation and the Birth of the FBI’ by David Grann, a New York Times bestseller published in 2017.

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ follows the story of a plot that killed nearly sixty members of the Osage tribe in the United States. The story is set between 1921 and 1925, after the First World War, a time in which the structures that would give rise to the famous Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were also shaped. Of course, the story has all the ingredients to fit perfectly into Scorsese’s filmography: a story of ambition, betrayal and violence that seems foundational to American myths.

The story tells how, in the latter part of the 19th century, the Osage Indian tribe of Oklahoma was granted the right to benefit from a fair amount of oil deposits on their land. As a result, the community amassed a fortune in the tens of millions of dollars, making it one of the richest in the world. The federal government did not take kindly to this power and appointed Caucasian guardians to control the financial management of the community, sparking murderous envy among neighbors. In 1921 the violence began when a wealthy Osage woman was murdered, the first of many deaths over the next four years. FBI agent Tom White led the investigation to find the culprits.

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: trailer and images

This is how the first official image of ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ distributed in 2022, and in which we see Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio: