‘Moon Killers’, a film based on real events

The new filming collaboration between directors Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio arrives in domestic cinemas on October 19, and it is about “Moon Killers”, a film based on the book by David Grann.

“Killers of the Flower Moon”, the original title of the film, is the sixth collaboration between the director and the protagonist of “Titanic”, in addition, the cast also includes Hollywood star Robert De Niro, for whom this is the tenth collaboration with Scorsese.

The 206-minute film is based on real events that took place in twentieth centuryin Oklahoma, United States of America, and which was one of the first cases of the newly created FBI.

In that time, Oil brought great wealth Osage Nation (original people of the United States of America), which attracted intruders who manipulated, extorted and stole all the money, and even resorted to murder.

“Members of the Osage tribe in NOW were killed in mysterious circumstances 1920s, which caused significant investigation from the FBI,” says the film’s synopsis.

It is worth mentioning that, as Scorsese revealed to “The Irish Times”, the first script movie It is written from the perspective of FBI agents, however, DiCaprio made a remark, telling him that he was making a mistake by “white people“.

Scorsese was confident that he had captured the story of this indigenous people, as he had spent two years working on the script and had meetings and dinners with the Osage.

This led the director to meet with the Osage community and in a meeting with one of the bosses discovered that they should have known what he was from him reliable.

“(…) what he needed from me was to know that I would not use him, that I would not sensationalize the story, especially Osage victimizationespecially the violence,” Scorsese said.

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Furthermore, from two stars Hollywoodthe cast consists of Tantoo, Brendan FraserJohn Lithgow, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae CollinsDion, William Belleau, Louis Cancelmi, Jason Isbell, Sturgill SimpsonTatanka means, among other things.