The director and one of his favourite actors will make their sixth film together, ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’, based on a novel by David Grann
Scorsese: “When I read the book, Grann, I immediately knew that I had to make it into a film”
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are ready to make a new film together, the sixth, Killers of the Flower Moon, a play based on the novel by David Grann about the crimes committed in the Nation Osage after the discovery of oil deposits in its territory at the beginning of the TWENTIETH century.
The inhabitants of that region in Oklahoma, native native of Ohio, and the Mississippi valley, came to be the individuals most rich in the world back in the 1920’s, after give with oil and natural gas on their land. But the discovery also cost the life. Were killed, one of the first cases of which were commissioned a FBI of recent creation and has been recognized as one of the biggest massacres of the modern history of the united States.
Scorsese, fan of the themes of historical burden, what was clear in the work of Grann fell into their hands. “When I read the book by David Grann, immediately I began to visualise, the people, the vibe, the action, and I knew I had to make it into a film,” he said.
The director new yorker, will work with producer Dan Friedkin, according to the magazine Variety, with a script by Eric Roth. Scorsese will have the help of the native indians at the time of choosing locations for the shoot, scheduled for the summer of 2019.
After two films without his actor fetish to the front, the responsible Taxi Driver will have recourse to the californian. Since 2002, DiCaprio has starred in six of their nine recent films, with highs and lows along the way. Gangs of New York and The aviator did not convince too much, but with Infiltrated the filmmaker made the Oscar to the best direction.
Then there were Shutter Island and The wolf of Wall Street, perhaps their best film together. With that work DiCaprio did with their fourth nomination for an Oscar as best actor, a prize that is not carried with Scorsese, but under the direction of the mexican Alejandro González Iñárritu, for The born again, two years later.
To 2020 will be signing another joint work, while the actor’s wheel to the orders of Quentin Tarantino, once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Scorsese tops the production of The Irishman to Netflix, another story of gangsters, one of its most fertile land and the beloved.
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