There was hardly a better and more productive director/actor duo in the last two decades than Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. The two made five movies together, all of which went on to become successful both in the box office and with the critics.
Now, Scorsese and DiCaprio are ready for another run, since it was recently announced that they will reunite for an adaptation of David Grann’s best-selling novel Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.
The 75-year-old director and 43-year-old actor were linked to the project for some time now, but the official confirmation came just recently. The filming of the movie is currently scheduled to start in the summer of 2019.
“When I read David Grann’s book, I immediately started seeing it, the people, the settings, the action, and I knew that I had to make it into a movie. I’m so excited to be working with Eric Roth and reuniting with Leo DiCaprio to bring this truly unsettling American story to the screen,” said Scorsese in a statement.
The book Killers of the Flower Moon tells the story of series of murders of people belonging to the Native American tribe Osage Nation after oil was found on their land in the 1920s. After the number of deaths gets alarmingly high, the newly formed Federal Bureau of Investigation takes over the case, trying to find those responsible for the crimes.
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio’s first collaboration was the epic period drama Gangs of New York from 2002. The duo then went on to work on The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island and The Wolf of Wall Street, with their movies receiving 31 Academy Awards nominations and winning nine of them. They also worked together on 2015’s short film The Audition.
