Killers of the Flower Moon shows the investigation that took place after the massacre of the Osage tribe in the United States
One of the most anticipated films of 2023, Flower Moon Assassins is an adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (2017), book written by David Grann. However, before having any expectations, the director Martin Scorsese revealed how he had to rewrite the entire script because there was only room for “all the white guys.”
The plot is based on a true story and shows a crime responsible for shocking the United States. Tribe members Osage in the United States were murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s.
During an interview with Teamthe filmmaker briefly recalled the extensive rewrites of the film, co-written by Eric Roth. Originally, the duo focused the adaptation on the investigation that FBI did, with Leonardo DiCaprio chosen to play the institution’s chief investigator, Tom White – in the end, the actor lived Ernest Burkhart. Jesse Plemons he took on the role of the police officer.
After a certain point, I realized how I was making a movie about all white guys. Which means I was taking an outside-in approach, which worried me.
Already in conversation with the magazine Interview, Lily Gladstone (Mollie Burkhart) commented how he originally auditioned for Flower Moon Assassins with the first version of the script. After these rewrites, she returned to the test with a completely different text.
“Before the rewrite, I had three pages of some pretty chatty dialogue,” he said. “But I was struggling so much with the scenes that when Covid-19 closed everything and the project went silent for a minute, I assumed I had ruined the test. About a year later, I got a Zoom request with Martin Scorsese. And then I got new material.”
Suddenly it was a scene with minimal dialogue… and I thought, ‘Oh man, I can insert a character here now. This is amazing.’ Because I heard that the rewrites turned 180°.
“The focus would have been on FBIwith Mollie It is Ernest being part of the supporting story, rather than the central story,” he continued.
Source: Rollingstone
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