After playing an FBI agent in Judas and the Black Messiah, Jesse Plemons wants to stay at the bureau. He’s ready to join Apple Studios’ Flower Moon Assassins, that Martin Scorsese is directing with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro to star.
Based on David Grann’s bestseller and set in 1920s Oklahoma, Flower Moon Killers portrays the serial murder of members of the oil-rich Osage nation, a series of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Kingdom of Terror. Plemons will play the lead FBI agent who investigates the murders.
Lily Gladstone is also on board to play Mollie Burkhart, an Osage married to Ernest Burkhart (DiCaprio), who is the nephew of a powerful local farmer (De Niro).
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Scorsese will also produce for Apple Studios and Imperative Entertainment from a screenplay by Eric Roth. Producing alongside Scorsese are Imperative’s Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas, and Appian Way Productions.
In addition to its role in stealing scenes in Judas and the Black Messiah, The next Plemons credits include the next Disney movie Jungle Cruise alongside Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, Scott Cooper’s newest film Horns alongside Keri Russell and produced by Guillermo Del Toro. He also recently appeared in Charlie Kaufman’s film I’m thinking about ending things.
He also just worked on the Jane Campion feature The power of the dog opposite Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst.
Flower Moon Killers joins a growing offering of early Apple Originals that will be developed and produced by Apple Studios, including Chemistry classes starring and executive production by Brie Larson, and writing and executive production by Susannah Grant; Kitbag, Ridley Scott’s latest film and starring Joaquin Phoenix; and Emancipation, by director Antoine Fuqua and starring and produced by Will Smith.
Imperative is behind projects like the Clint Eastwood film The mule, All the money in the worldand winner of the 2017 Palme d’Or by Ruben Ostlund The square. Recently, the production of the Ostlund segment ended Triangle of Sadness and working with Apple Studios in With the devil starring Taron Egerton.