The next Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio collaboration will begin shooting next Summer.
Titled Killers of the Flower Moon, the project is an adaptation of David Grann’s true-crime thriller. Scorsese will begin work on the film after wrapping his forthcoming gangster drama, The Irishman.
This will mark Scorsese and DiCaprio’s sixth collaboration in 16 years following Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island and The Wolf of Wall Street.
Rights to Grann’s book – subtitled The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI – fetched a reported $5 million in 2016. The script has been written by Eric Roth, the Oscar-winner behind Forrest Gump and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
The non-fiction work documents the string of murders which plagued the Osage Indian tribe in Oklahoma during the 1920s after oil was found on their land. The case was deemed the FBI’s first homicide investigation.
Scorsese’s next project, The Irishman, marks a Goodfellas reunion with Joe Pesci starring alongside Robert De Niro. It’ll be the director’s first time working with Al Pacino. It was filmed in New York and is expected to arrive on Netflix in December.
DiCaprio is currently filming Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood which will be released in August 2019.
