Lily Gladstone, who stole the show as a lovesick ranchhand smitten with her teacher (Kristen Stewart) in Kelly Reichardt’s “Certain Women,” has joined Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” at Apple Studios and Imperative Entertainment.
Based on “The Lost City of Z” author David Grann’s non-fiction book, the 1920s true 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 and remains one of the most monstrous crimes in American history.
Gladstone, a descendant of the Blackfeet and Nez Perce tribes, will play the role of Mollie Burkhart. Mollie is Osage and married to Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) – the nephew of a powerful local rancher (Robert De Niro). Eric Roth is writing the screenplay.
At a reported cost of around $200 million to produce, the project does not have a release date. Gladstone also appeared in Showtime’s “Billions” and last year’s “First Cow”.