However, Ernest botches the assassination and Hale paddles him inside a Masonic Temple as punishment. Hale orders Ernest to arrange the murder of Henry Roan, Mollie's first husband. Lizzie sees her ancestors welcome her to the afterlife as she dies. Lizzie and the Osage council blame the reservation's white residents and urge the tribe to fight back.Ī newsreel of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, in which white people destroyed a black community and killed numerous residents, causes further concern amongst the Osage that they could suffer similarly. After Mollie's sister Minnie dies of a mysterious illness, Hale orders Byron to kill Mollie's other sister, the rebellious Anna. Mollie is diabetic, and her mother Lizzie is ill. He explains that Ernest will inherit more headrights if more of Mollie's family dies. Hale secretly orders the contract killings of multiple wealthy Osage. A romance develops, and the two marry in a ceremony mixing Roman Catholic and Osage traditions. Ernest meets Mollie Kyle, an Osage whose family owns oil headrights, via his day job as a cab driver. Ernest and Byron commit armed robbery against the Osage. Hale, a reserve deputy sheriff and cattle rancher, poses as a friendly benefactor of the Osage, speaking their language and bestowing gifts. In 1919, Ernest Burkhart returns from World War I to live with his brother Byron and uncle William King Hale on Hale's large reservation ranch. The tribe becomes wealthy, as it retains mineral rights and members share in oil-lease revenues, though law requires white court-appointed legal guardians to manage the money of full and half-blood members, assuming them "incompetent". Wandering through their Oklahoma reservation, during the annual "flower moon" phenomenon of fields of blooms, several Osage find oil gushing from the ground. Osage Nation elders bury a ceremonial pipe, mourning their descendants' assimilation into White American society. It was also nominated for ten Academy Awards (including Best Picture), seven Golden Globe Awards (including Best Motion Picture – Drama, and with Gladstone winning Best Actress Motion Picture - Drama), and nine British Academy Film Awards (including Best Film). It won Best Film at the National Board of Review and was named one of the top 10 films of 2023 by the American Film Institute. The film has grossed over $156 million worldwide and received critical acclaim, with praise for Scorsese's direction, the screenplay, production values, editing, cinematography, musical score, and cast performances (especially DiCaprio, Gladstone, and De Niro), although the runtime received some criticism. It was theatrically released in the United States on October 20, 2023, by Paramount Pictures and Apple Original Films. Killers of the Flower Moon premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2023. The film was produced by Scorsese's Sikelia Productions and DiCaprio's Appian Way Productions, with its $200 million budget reportedly the largest amount ever spent on a film shoot in Oklahoma. Principal photography ultimately took place between April and October 2021, in Osage and Washington counties, Oklahoma. Following several pushbacks and delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, production was scheduled to begin in February 2021, with Apple TV+ confirmed to finance and distribute the film alongside Paramount Pictures. Scorsese and DiCaprio were attached to the film in 2017, with production expected to begin in early 2018. ĭevelopment began in March 2016 when Imperative Entertainment won the adaptation rights to the book. It is the sixth feature film collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio, the tenth between Scorsese and De Niro, the second between Scorsese and both actors overall, and the eleventh and final between Scorsese and composer Robbie Robertson, who died two months prior to the film's release. Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone lead an ensemble cast, also including Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow and Brendan Fraser. The tribal members had retained mineral rights on their reservation, but a corrupt local political boss sought to steal the tribal members' wealth. Set in 1920s Oklahoma, it focuses on a series of murders of Osage members and relations in the Osage Nation after oil was discovered on tribal land. Eric Roth and Scorsese based their screenplay on the 2017 non-fiction book by David Grann. Killers of the Flower Moon is a 2023 American epic western crime drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Martin Scorsese.
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