'Killers of the Flower Moon' release date, trailer, cast, Cannes premier: Key details about Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio film

Martin Scorsese's much anticipated film "Killers of the Flower Moon", featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, has premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2023 in France and received 9-minute standing ovation.

"Killers of the Flower Moon" premiered at Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, May 20. The movie will have limited release on October 6 before hitting the wider number of screens on October 20.

"Killers of the Flower Moon" will also have its OTT release on Apple TV+.

'Killers of the Flower Moon' Trailer, Cast

The makers dropped the trailer of "Killers of the Flower Moon" on May 18 on YouTube.


Directed by Martin Scorsese and Screenplay by Eric Roth and Scorsese, the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, and Jillian Dion.

'Killers of the Flower Moon' Story, Plot

"Killers of the Flower Moon" is based on David Grann’s broadly lauded best-selling book, Killers of the Flower Moon is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror.

Though Grann's book affords many possible inroads to the story, Scorsese and co-writer Eric Roth center their story on Ernest Burkhart (DiCaprio, in his seventh collaboration with Scorsese), a WWI veteran who falls for Mollie Brown (Gladstone), the member of a wealthy Osage family.

Since finding oil reserves on their land, the Osage were then the richest people per capita in the country. But that wealth is closely controlled by appointed white guardians. A series of murders prompts increased panic among the Osage, who are preyed on by a host of greedy killers.

Though Grann's book devoted many pages to the connections between the cases and the birth of the FBI, less time is spent in Scorsese's film on the murder investigations. (Jesse Plemons plays an agent from the just-formed Bureau.) Instead, “Killers of the Flower Moon” captures the manipulation and murders of Native American people through the dynamics in Ernest and Mollie's relationship.

The run-time of Killers of the Flower Moon is nearly three and a half hours and cost Apple $200 million to make.

FAQs

Q1. When is "Killers of the Flower Moon" releasing?
A1. 'Killers of the Flower Moon' is releasing on October 6.

Q2. Have makers released "Killers of the Flower Moon" trailer?
A2. Makers have dropped "Killers of the Flower Moon" trailer on YouTube.