After Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese will find DiCaprio for the 7th time!

David Grann is in style: After Killers of the Flower Moon, another of his bestsellers will be adapted for cinema with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, marking the legendary duo’s seventh collaboration.

Last year, Apple acquired the rights — for several million dollars, according to the trade press — to his new nonfiction book. The Castaways of Wager, has been available since April in the United States and was recently published here. The acclaimed novel remains the third bestseller in the essay category fourteen weeks after publication. Indeed, according to the New York Times (via Le Monde), the book has already sold tens of thousands of copies, and Barack Obama included it on his traditional summer reading list.

David Gran Currently, he is known as a specialist in investigating the past and is considered one of the masters of “literary journalism”. In 2016, he already broke all the records after selling the rights Flower Moon Assassins for 5 million dollars.

Set in the 1740s, The Castaways of the Wager tells, like the previous book, the story of a British navy ship that sank on a desert island in Patagonia after a mission to salvage treasure from a Spanish pavilion. Stranded and forced to survive against the elements, the crew descends into anarchy and find themselves framed by other sailors as traitors guilty of mutiny. Despite conflicting evidence, the Royal Navy organizes a trial to find out what really happened on the island.

David Grann at the cinema

Flower Moon Assassins and The Castaways of Wager Not the first works David Gran Film adaptation: He is actually the author of the novels that inspired James Gray’s The Lost City of Z (2016) with Charlie Hunnam, Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson, produced by Brad Pitt and Robert Redford. 2018 drama The Old Man and the Gun. His book White Darkness is also being developed by Soo Hew ( Terror ) as an Apple original limited series starring Tom Hiddleston.

DiCaprio – Scorsese: a super duo

This new collaboration Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese Looking forward to it again, the duo undoubtedly make one of cinema’s greatest pairings. Over the past 25 years, they have worked together on six films that have won multiple Oscars. The list includes: New York Gangs, Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street and Flower Moon Assassins which caused a sensation at the last Cannes Film Festival.

Also inspired by true events, the period crime drama recounts the 1920s Oklahoma serial murders of members of the Osage community, which became rich thanks to the oil beneath its lands – a series of brutal murders. Now known as the Reign of Terror.

Pending more information on Les Naufragés du Wager, Assassins of the Flower Moon hits theaters on October 18, 2023.