Leonardo DiCaprio to unite with Martin Scorsese for sixth collaboration
The director will shoot the film after production wraps on latest project The Irishman
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Your support makes all the difference.Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are to work with each other again on a film adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon, the true-crime thriller by David Grann.
The news was revealed to Variety by the filmmaker's longtime production designer Dante Ferretti who confirmed that Scorsese planned to shoot the film next year after wrapping his next project 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, The Wolf of Wall Street and the forthcoming Devil in the White City.
Rights to Grann's book, subtitled The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, fetched for a reported $5 million last year. Reports suggests a script has already been written by Eric Roth, the Oscar-winner behind Forrest Gump and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
The non-fiction work, which hit shelves in April, documents the string of murders which plagued the Osage Indian tribe in Oklahoma during the 1920s, after oil was found on their land and the nation soon became the richest per capita in the world. It's deemed the FBI's first homicide investigation.
Scorsese's next project, The Irishman, has evolved into a Goodfellas reunion having officially tapped Joe Pesci to star alongside Robert De Niro. It'll also be the director's first time working with Al Pacino. The film, which was acquired by Netflix, shoots in New York next month with a December release date expected.
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