(UTV|COLOMBO) – Oscar-winner Robert De Niro has reportedly been tapped to play the villain in Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese’s film adaptation of David Grann’s true-crime best-seller “Killers of the Flower Moon” at Paramount Pictures, Appian Way Productions and Sikelia Productions.
Set in the 1920s, the story focuses on a string of murders of members of the Osage nation in Oklahoma after oil was discovered beneath their land. The series of slayings was one of the fledgeling FBI’s first major homicide investigations. Oscar-winning scribe Eric Roth has adapted the script for the project which Scorsese and DiCaprio have been eyeing for years.
The Osage News broke the De Niro news, saying Scorsese and others involved in the production met with Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear and other representations of the Osage Nation on the tribe’s Pawhuska campus the other day. It was during said meeting that Scorsese noted that De Niro will be playing murderer Bill Hale.
Scorsese will reportedly be working closely with the tribe to accurately depict its culture, history and the language with the meeting this week dealing with how the Osage Nation could help with the filming. Very early pre-production has already begun ahead of filming in the spring and summer of 2020.
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