Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese will work together on a film adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and Birth of the FBI.
Variety.com reports that the two will work on jointly developing the film, after Scorsese wraps up The Irishman. The film is based on a book by David Grann, author of bestseller, The Lost City of Z. Oscar winner Eric Roth has reportedly written a draft of the script already, and Dante Ferreti, long time production designer for Scorsese, will do a preliminary location scouting for the film soon.
Rights to the film adaptation of the book was snapped by Imperative, and they have been working with DiCaprio and Scorsese on the development of the film. Variety quotes John Atwood, of the production house, as saying, “we are currently conducting preliminary research on the film, but there are no formal attachments nor confirmed start date at this time.”
The report also states,
The story, set in the 1920s, focuses on a string of murders of members of the Osage nation in Oklahoma after oil was discovered beneath their land. The chilling series of slayings was one of the fledgling FBI’s first major homicide investigations.
Preliminary work and pre-production for the film will likely begin in September, and it is expected Scorsese will begin principal shooting around March 2018, as soon as he wraps up The Irishman, which stars Robert DeNiro as mafia killer Frank Sheeran.
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