“Killers Of The Moon” by Apple and Martin Scorsese leaves Lily Gladstone in the star – Deadline

Lily Gladstone to star in Apple Original Films’ Flower Moon assassins. Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro are also expected to star in the film, directed by Martin Scorsese. Based on David Grann’s acclaimed 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.

Gladstone will play Mollie Burkhart, an Osage married to Ernest Burkhart (DiCaprio), who is the nephew of a powerful local farmer (De Niro). 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.

Gladstone played a decisive role in Kelly Reichardt Certain women, for which she won several accolades and nominations for Best Supporting Actress at the Independent Spirit Award and Best New Actor at the Gotham Awards. She also won the Best Supporting Actress awards from the Los Angeles Critics Film Association and Indiewire. Other film credits include meeting with Reichardt last year First cow for A24, Alex and Andrew Smith’s Winter in the blood and Going out, 2020 short film by Erica Tremblay at Sundance Little boss and the award-winning 2020 SXSW selected Free Land. She is represented by APA, Authentic Talent and Literary Management and Joel McKuin at McKuin Frankel Whitehead LLP.

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 Oscar winner Brie Larson, and script and executive production of Oscar nominee Susannah Grant; Kitbag, the latest film by esteemed director Ridley Scott and starring Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix; Emancipation, by director Antoine Fuqua and starring and produced by Oscar nominee Will Smith.

Imperative Entertainment is behind projects like the Clint Eastwood film The mule, Oscar nominated All the money in the worldand the Oscar nominated film and winner of the 2017 Palme d’Or The square by Ruben Ostlund. Imperative Entertainment recently ended production on Ostlund’s successor Triangle of Sadness and working with Apple Studios in With the devil starring Taron Egerton.