A year after the end of the shooting of his last film, Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese is still in the editing room with his editor, Thelma Schoonmaker. The screenplay was written by Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese based on the eponymous novel by David Grann.
Black gold
It tells the true story of the murders of several members of the Osage Indian tribe in Oklahoma, murdered after finding oil on their land in the 1920s. The FBI is leading the investigation. Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Brendan Fraser and John Lithgow star in the Oklahoma-shot film, which has a budget of around $200 million.
A walk (or two) from the Croisette
A source close to the production explains: “Currently, Flower Moon lasts three hours twenty minutes…Cannes cannot schedule a film that long, so they are waiting to see how things will develop”. The film was to be presented at a major festival before being released in theaters and then made widely available on the AppleTV+ streaming platform. From there to forcing Martin Scorsese to review his copy, there is only one step, or two… To be continued?
