Director icon Martin Scorsese (77) wants Apple to produce his new film. The thriller "Killers of the Flower Moon" with Leonardo DiCaprio (45) and Robert De Niro (76) in the leading roles is to be placed on the Apple TV + streaming service, according to "The Hollywood Reporter", while Paramount film studio is responsible for the distribution of the mammoth project should.
It is not the first film that Scorsese is putting into the hands of a streaming service: for its elaborately filmed mafia epic "The Irishman" from 2019, the 77-year-old worked with Netflix after the big film studios gave him the high price Had canceled costs. Now it should target Apple for its next project. The budget for "Killers of the Flower Moon" is expected to be between $ 180 and $ 200 million.
What is "Killers of the Flower Moon" about?
The thriller based on the non-fiction book by David Grann (53), "The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI", is about the series of murders of members of the Osage Indian tribe in Oklahoma in the early 1920s. They had been granted profits for the oil discovered under their land. The newly founded FBI is supposed to solve the murders.