Leonardo DiCaprio calls Martin Scorsese’s KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON a masterpiece

Martin Scorsese has been working hard to develop his next big film project, The flower moon killersand according to the film’s costume designer, Jacqueline West, Leonardo Dicaprio he’s delivering high praise for the film. He says the film is a masterpiece.

West recalled a conversation with the actor during an appearance at the Doha Film Institute, telling Deadline, “I was talking to Leo about it. We had lunch before we came here. He said, ‘Jackie, I think we’ve been working on a masterpiece. ‘ I thought Leo said that, it was something. He doesn’t say that lightly. He’s been in the industry since he was a kid.”

I’m really not surprised, Scorsese seems to be making one masterpiece after another and this movie looks amazing.

Leonardo DiCaprio stars in the film as Ernest Burkhart and is joined by Lily Glastone as Mollie Burkhart, an Osage married to Ernest, granddaughter of a powerful local rancher, played by Robert DeNiro. Brendan Fraser (The Mummy) also stars in the film.

The film is based on David Grannand the story is set in 1920s Oklahoma. It depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-rich Osage Nation, a series of brutal crimes that became known as the Reign of Terror. Here is a description of the story:

In the late nineteenth century, the Osage Indians were driven onto a supposedly worthless stretch of land in northeastern Oklahoma. But their turf turned out to be atop one of the largest oil fields in the United States; to get that oil, prospectors had to pay the tribe rents and royalties. By the 1920s, Osage Nation members had become the wealthiest people per capita in the world. And then the Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances.

As previously talked about the film, screenwriter Eric Rot she shared, “This was a unique story that I knew nothing about. It showed my ignorance. I thought, “That’s amazing, it could be a western.” Marty has never done a western. It’s the first time you’ll see a street scene where there are 90% Indigenous Native Americans and 1 or 2% Caucasians.”

Roth also said that he uses “a lot of Western tropes” in the story. He even teased something special planned for the end credits, saying, “I’ve come up with an amazing way to do the end credits, that you’ve never seen. The other day he texted me: “I’ll be shooting our end credits in a couple of days.” I was so happy that he was doing it.

He also explained that this film is “nothing we’ve ever seen” and that it will be “one for the ages”, saying:

“I know Marty is trying to make a film that is probably the last Western made this way, and yet, with this incredible social document underneath, and the violence and the setting. I think it’s going to be something we’ve never seen, in a way. And so this is, to me, one for the ages.

Can’t wait to watch it!