Martin Scorsese is gearing up to shoot his next film The Irishman, which will reunite him with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, and after that he’s set to team with another of his frequent collaborators, Leonardo DiCaprio, for an adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.
Variety reports that Scorsese is aiming to shoot Killers of the Flower Moon in the spring of 2018, working from a script by Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button). The story takes place in the 1920s, and explores a string of murders of members of the Osage nation in Oklahoma after oil was discovered beneath their land, marking one of the fledgling FBI’s first major investigations.
Before then, Scorsese will focus his attention on The Irishman, which is set to begin production in September and explores the life of mob hit-man Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, who claimed to have killed Teamsters Union official Jimmy Hoffa.
Originally published July 15, 2017. Updated April 15, 2018.
