An update from Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise reveals a casting call for Martin Scorsese’s upcoming “Killers of the Flower Moon,” via a Google form, which confirms a seven-month shoot from February to September 2021 is being planned.
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Paramount Acquires Martin Scorsese's Next Movie, ‘Killers of the Flower Moon' Starring Leonardo DiCaprio
Last year, Variety had confirmed that Martin Scorsese and Leonardo Dicaprio's sixth collaboration together "Killers of the Flower Moon" would start production this summer. However, with Scorsese still putting the finishing touches on “The Irishman,” it does look like this coming fall is a better bet. No matter, the movie is definitely happening, especially with today’s news that Paramount has picked it up for distribution.
Read moreLeonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese’s Sixth Collaboration, ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ Starts Filming Summer 2019
Scorsese and DiCaprio will shoot "Killers of the Flower Moon" late next year
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio have two projects in the works, “The Devil in the White City” and “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The latter is officially going into production after Scorsese is done editing his upcoming gangster drama "The Irishman," with long-time collaborator/editor Thelma Schoonmaker.
"Killers of the Flower Moon" is a "crime drama set in 1920s Oklahoma, where the Osage Nation discover oil under their land, only to find themselves being murdered, one by one. As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI takes up the case and unravels a chilling conspiracy and one of the most monstrous crimes in American history."
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