Killers Of The Flower Moon new trailer: Leonardo DiCaprio gets close to Lily Gladstone in Martin Scorsese’s drama about greed in 1920s Oklahoma – TH
Killers Of The Flower Moon new trailer: Leonardo DiCaprio gets close to Lily Gladstone in Martin Scorsese’s drama about greed in 1920s Oklahoma
The new trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon was shared on Wednesday morning.
The movie is a sweeping American epic about greed and exploitation on the bloody plains of an Osage Nation reservation in 1920s Oklahoma.
Scorsese’s latest – starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro – is one of his most ambitious.
This new clip showed more about the romantic relationship between DiCaprio and Gladstone’s characters as they embrace in a field.
And the tension between DiCaprio and his uncle, played by De Niro, is also explored more.
Adapting David Grann’s nonfiction bestseller, it stretches nearly three and a half hours and cost Apple $200 million to make.
The movie will debut on October 20, 2023.
In love: The new trailer for Martin Scorsese ‘s Killers Of The Flower Moon was shared on Wednesday morning
Romance: The movie is a sweeping American epic about greed and exploitation on the bloody plains of an Osage Nation reservation in 1920s Oklahoma
A sad twist: DiCaprio’s character Ernest falls for Mollie, played by Gladstone
This film looks to be Oscar material: The movie will debut on October 20, 2023
In May, the film received a rapturous nine-minute standing ovation when it premiered at Cannes Film Festival.
And as early reviews for the three and a half hour epic roll in, it’s safe to say the iconic director’s first ever Western will go down as a ‘triumph’.
A wide array of film critics have already given the DiCaprio led movie five stars across the board, with one even hailing it as the best of its genre.
Words like ‘searing and ‘masterpiece’ were bandied about by critics who managed to get their hands on a ticket to the first screening.
IndieWire said DiCaprio gives ‘his best-ever performance’, while The Guardian awarded five stars for a ‘remarkable epic about the bloody birth of America’.
There were some dissenting notes, with The Times calling it ‘a damp squib’.
Scorsese unveiled Killers of the Flower Moon at Cannes.
Nothing has been more anticipated at this year’s festival than Killers of the Flower Moon – a bitter crime film and a Great Plains Western – which appeared to meet those expectations.
It drew a lengthy standing ovation and repeated cheers for Scorsese, 80, who premiered his first film at Cannes since 1985’s ‘After Hours.’
Addressing the crowd after the screening, he said: ‘We shot this a couple of years ago in Oklahoma. It’s taken its time to come around but Apple did so great by us.’
The red carpet drew a wide spectrum of stars. Along with the film’s expansive cast, attendees included Apple CEO Tim Cook, as well as actors Cate Blanchett, Salma Hayek, Paul Dano and Isabelle Huppert.
New look: There is tension with Leonardo’s character and his uncle, played by Robert De Niro, left
The glamour is gone: DiCaprio takes on a grittier look for this role as he appears to be going for another Oscar
Over 100 years ago: The movie is set in the United States in the 1920s
Directing: The film is a sweeping American epic about greed and exploitation on the bloody plains of an Osage Nation reservation in Oklahoma
The big cheese on the plains: De Niro stars as the man who loves to talk money
Though Grann’s book affords many possible inroads to the story, Scorsese and co-writer Eric Roth center their story on Ernest Burkhart (DiCaprio, in his seventh collaboration with Scorsese), a WWI veteran who falls for Mollie Brown (Gladstone), the member of a wealthy Osage family.It marks DiCaprio’s first film on the big screen since 2019 Quentin Tarantino Flick Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. He also starred in 2021 film Don’t Look Up which streamed on Netflix.
Set in the 1920s, it centers on the FBI’s investigation into a string of murders after several members of the Osage tribe in Oklahoma were slaughtered.
The bad guy? De Niro’s character seems bent on making as much money as he can
He came to town for law and order: Jesse Plemons investigates the deaths
Money time: In the 1920s, the Osage tribe became wealthy almost overnight after oil was discovered beneath their land, earning them more than $30 million in annual revenue at the peak of the boom, according to the Oklahoma Historical Society
That leads to a fight: Men want to steal the oil money from the Osage tribe
Killers of the Flower Moon focuses on a little-publicized chapter of American history involving the Osage Nation.
In the 1920s, the Osage tribe became wealthy almost overnight after oil was discovered beneath their land, earning them more than $30 million in annual revenue at the peak of the boom, according to the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Subsurface minerals within the Osage Nation Reservation were tribally owned and held in trust by the government.
Mineral leases earned royalties that were paid to the tribe as a whole – with each allottee receiving one equal share also known as a headright.
But these headrights could only legally be attained by outsiders if they married into the tribe.
It was during this time that rancher William K. Hale, a native of Greenville, Texas, encouraged his subservient nephew Ernest Burkhart to wed Osage member Mollie Kyle (later Mollie Burkhart).
After hours of waiting in the rain that has drenched the French Riviera town all week, fans went wild as the trio arrived for the premiere alongside several native Americans in traditional outfits.
Three cheers! The movie received a rapturous nine-minute standing ovation when it premiered at Cannes Film Festival on Saturday night
Co-star Jesse Plemons arrived with his wife Kirsten Dunst, while Salma Hayek, Cate Blanchett, and Tobey Maguire were also present.
Based on a nonfiction bestseller, the film sees DiCaprio play a weak-willed man who marries a wealthy Osage Indian and is drawn into the deadly schemes of his kingpin uncle (De Niro).
Killers of the Flower Moon was screening out-of-competition in Cannes.
It is the first time Scorsese, who won the Palme in 1976 for Taxi Driver, has presented a film here since 1985, though he served as jury president in 1998.
It is set to debut in limited theatres on October 6, with a wide release scheduled for October 20.
