Martin Scorsese's next movie, killers of the flower moon, is still far from starting production, a film that will premiere exclusively on Apple TV +, after the agreement reached by the director with the streaming video platform a little over a year ago.
The latest news related to this movie can be found on Deadline. According to this medium, William Belleau, Louis Cancelmi, Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson are the new actors who will be part of the cast from the film that also stars Leonardo Dicaprio and Robert DeNiro and which shows us the story of the Osage murders in the 1920s.
The new actors who have joined the cast, he has already assigned his roles in the movie:
- William Belleau He will play Henry Roan, an Osage rancher with close ties to DiCaprio's Burkhart family.
- Louis Cancelmi is Kelsie Morrison, a local hustler and friend of Burkhart.
- Jason isbell, who makes his acting debut in the film, plays Bill Smith, an adversary of Ernest Burkhart.
- Sturgill simpson He joins in as the infamous rodeo champion and smuggler Henry Grammer.
This new movie is based on the book Killers Of The Flower Moon: The Osage Murders And The Birth Of The FBI, a book about a series of murders of Osage Native Americans settled in Oklahoma.
The film is set in the 1920s and follows the discovery of oil deposits under the lands of the aforementioned Native Americans. The investigation related to this case it was the precursor to the creation of the FBI.
Killers of the Flower Moon will initially be released in theaters, in order to compete in the Hollywood Academy Oscars, reaching the streaming video service a few weeks later.
