Martin Scorsese said he rewrote the entire script of his latest film, „Killers of the Flower Moon,“ before shooting it. Read the reason behind the revamp.
Before shooting his latest film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Martin Scorsese said he decided to shake up which characters would get the spotlight. He said he realized the movie focused too much on white men.
After his revision, the historical drama, set in the Osage Nation, still centers on a white man, Ernest Burkhart, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. But the principal drama of the film became the marriage between Ernest and a Native American woman, Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone).
“After a certain point, I realized I was making a movie about all the white guys,” Scorsese told Time this week. “Meaning I was taking the approach from the outside in, which concerned me.”
“Killers of the Flower Moon” tells the true story of the murders of Osage Nation members by white settlers in the 1920s. DiCaprio originally was attached to play FBI investigator Tom White, who was sent to the Osage Nation within Oklahoma to probe the killings.
The script underwent a significant rewrite, however, shifting the dramatic focus from White’s investigation to the Osage and the circumstances that led to them being systematically killed with no consequences.
