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Martin Scorsese’s Axed ‘Flower Moon’ Script Was Over 200 Pages Long and ‘Was Going to Take Four-and-a-Half Hours Just to Read’

The version of “Killers of the Flower Moon” that is opening in theaters this weekend is far different from the “Killers of the Flower Moon” that director Martin Scorsese first attempted to bring to ...
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Leonardo DiCaprio Says ‘Flower Moon’ Script From FBI’s POV Got Axed Because It Didn’t ‘Get to the Heart’ of the Story: ‘We Weren’t Immersed in the Osage’

Leonardo DiCaprio finally weighed in on the massive “Killers of the Flower Moon” rewrite that changed the direction of Martin Scorsese’s latest historical epic. The script originally centered on FBI ...
IndieWire

Jesse Plemons Takes Over DiCaprio’s Original Role in Scorsese’s ‘Flower Moon’ After Script Changes

Martin Scorsese's big-budget Western drama is aiming to kick off production in May. Per The Hollywood Reporter, “Plemons will play Tom White, the lead FBI agent investigating the murders.” The role of ...
NME

‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ script changed after arguments between writer and Leonardo DiCaprio

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will reunite on 'Killers Of The Flower Moon'. Credit: Getty Images. The screenplay for Martin Scorsese’s forthcoming Western Killers Of The Flower Moon continues ...
Variety

Leonardo DiCaprio Says ‘Flower Moon’ Script From FBI’s POV Got Axed Because It Didn’t ‘Get to the Heart’ of the Story: ‘We Weren’t Immersed in the Osage’

DiCaprio plays Ernest Burkhart, a World War I veteran who is pulled into his uncle’s greedy plot to rob the Osage Nation of its wealth. When the original script for “Flower Moon” was axed, DiCaprio ...
Variety

Martin Scorsese’s Axed ‘Flower Moon’ Script Was Over 200 Pages Long and ‘Was Going to Take Four-and-a-Half Hours Just to Read’

“Our script was over two hundred pages,” he also confirmed to The New Yorker about the original “Flower Moon” screenplay. “One night we had a big reading: myself and Leo and Eric and my daughter, a ...