Leonardo DiCaprio Calls Martin Scorsese’s KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON a Masterpiece — GeekTyrant

Martin Scorsese has been exhausting at work growing his subsequent massive movie venture, Killers of the Flower Moon, and in accordance with the movie’s costume designer, Jacqueline West, Leonardo DiCaprio is providing excessive reward for the movie. He says the film is a masterpiece.

West recalled a dialog with the actor throughout an look on the Doha Movie Institute, telling Deadline: “I used to be speaking to Leo about it. We had lunch earlier than I got here right here. He stated, ‘Jackie, I feel we labored on a masterpiece.’ I assumed for Leo to say that, was one thing. He doesn’t say that frivolously. He has been within the enterprise since he was just a little boy.”

I’m probably not stunned, Scorsese appears to make one film masterpiece after one other and this movie sounds prefer it’s going to be unimaginable.

Leonardo DiCaprio stars within the movie as Ernest Burkhart and he’s joined by Lily Gladstone as Mollie Burkhart, an Osage married to Ernest, who’s nephew of a robust native rancher, who’s performed by Robert De Niro. Brendan Fraser (The Mummy) additionally stars within the film.

The movie relies on David Grann’s novel, and the story is ready in Twenties Oklahoma. It depicts the serial homicide of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that got here to be often called the Reign of Terror. Right here’s an outline of the story:

On the finish of the nineteenth century, the Osage Indians had been pushed onto a presumed nugatory expanse of land in northeastern Oklahoma. However their territory turned out to be atop one of many largest oil deposits in the USA; to acquire that oil, prospectors had been required to pay the tribe for leases and royalties. By the Twenties, the members of Osage Nation had develop into the wealthiest individuals per capita on this planet. After which the Osage started to die underneath mysterious circumstances.

Whereas beforehand speaking in regards to the movie, screenwriter Eric Roth shared: “This was a novel story that I knew nothing about. It confirmed my ignorance. I assumed, ‘It’s unbelievable, it could possibly be a Western.’ Marty’s by no means finished a Western. It’s the primary time you’ll see a road scene the place there’s 90 p.c Native American indigenous individuals, and 1 or 2 p.c Caucasians.”

Roth additionally stated that he makes use of “a whole lot of Western tropes” within the story. He additionally teased one thing particular deliberate for the tip credit, saying: “I got here up with an unimaginable method to do the tip credit, which you’ve by no means seen. He wrote me a textual content the opposite day: ‘I’m going to shoot our finish credit in a pair days.’ I used to be so pleased that he’s doing that.”

He additionally defined that this film is “nothing we’ve ever seen” and that it’ll be “one for the ages,” saying:

“I do know Marty’s attempting to make a film that’s most likely the final Western that will be made like this, and but, with this unimaginable social doc beneath it, and the violence and the setting. I feel it’ll be like nothing we’ve ever seen, in a means. And so this one is, to me, one for the ages.”

I can’t wait to look at this!