Martin Scorsese’s first movie to world premiere at Cannes since After Hours in 1986, the trailer lastly arrives for Killers of the Flower Moon shortly earlier than it screens on the competition. Tailored from David Grann’s e-book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, the movie’s script was co-penned by Scorsese and Eric Roth. The western boasts a 206-minute runtime and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Scott Shepherd and John Lithgow.
The plot revolves round a sequence of murders in Nineteen Twenties Oklahoma of the oil-rich Osage Nation and the rich Hale household’s (headed by DiCaprio and De Niro) connection to them. These occasions spark an FBI investigation spearheaded by a younger J. Edgar Hoover and Tom White (Plemons), a former Texas Ranger.
The movie will probably be launched theatrically by Paramount and completely stream on Apple TV+ in October. Watch the trailer above.