The teaser trailer for Martin Scorsese’s highly-anticipated Killers of the Flower Moon released this morning offers the first look at the sweeping scope of the director’s epic, 3 hour and 26 minute film.
Watch it above.
Over images of turn-of-the 20th century Oklahoma boomtown, we hear a Midwesterm-accented Leonardo DiCaprio (as Ernest Burkhart) relate basics of the Osage Nation’s story as it relates to the invasion of the white man, in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.
At the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Osage Nation, whose members became some of the richest people in the world, virtually overnight. The wealth of these Native Americans immediately attracted white interlopers, who manipulated, extorted and stole as much Osage money as they could before resorting to murder.
Based on a true story and told through the romance between Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), Killers of the Flower Moon is an epic western crime saga, where real love crosses paths with unspeakable betrayal.
Hailing from Apple Studios, the film is directed and produced by Oscar-winner Martin Scorsese and written by Scorsese and Eric Roth. Robert De Niro and Jesse Plemons also star. It is produced by Imperative Entertainment, Sikelia Productions and Appian Way. Other roducers include Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas and Daniel Lupi. Executive producers are by Leonardo DiCaprio, Rick Yorn, Adam Sommer, Marianne Bower, Lisa Frechette, John Atwood, Shea Kammer and Niels Juul.
The film will premiere in select theaters on October 6, 2023 before streaming globally on Apple TV+.
