Lily Gladstone, the breakout star of Kelly Reichardt‘s 2016 indie “Certain Women,” has been cast alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s upcoming $200-million drama, “Killers of The Flower Moon.” Based on the David Grann book of the same name and adapted by Eric Roth (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”), the crime drama centers on members of the Indigenous American Osage tribe in the United States who are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s, sparking a major F.B.I. investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover. ‘Moon’ depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the “Reign of Terror.”
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So far, the cast includes DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, and now Gladstone. She will play Mollie Burkhart’s role; an Osage tribe member married to Ernest Burkhart (DiCaprio), who is the nephew of a rugged local rancher. Since “Certain Women,” Gladstone has appeared in Reichardt’s “First Cow,” Showtime‘s “Billions,” HBO‘s “Room 104,” and has upcoming roles in films like “The Unknown Country” and “The Boardinghouse Reach.“
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Scorsese made major headlines in 2020 when, he veered away from Netflix—who had just produced “The Irishman”— and Apple swooped in to pay the expensive, reportedly $200-million-costing film (though Paramount, whom Scorsese has a long history with, will help them release it theatrically).
Apple Originals has been trying to make a splash, and what better way to do that by securing a Martin Scorsese movie and the most anticipated film of 2021…or 2022? It’s still unclear when “Killers of The Flower Moon” will shoot. Scorsese had promised an early 2021 shoot, but that’s (kind of) come and gone. However, with the casting of Gladstone, maybe the film should be moving forward in the next few months.