Leonardo DiCaprio’s war hero unwittingly gets entangled in Robert De Niro’s clash with the native Osage tribe over a patch of Oklahoma’s oil-rich land in the new trailer of Martin Scorsese’s upcoming western crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon.
Dropped by Apple TV on Wednesday evening, the two-minute-24-second-long trailer shows DiCaprio’s war hero coming to Oklahoma to work for his uncle (De Niro), who asks him to woo a woman of the Osage tribe. Following his uncle’s advice, the war hero seduces Lily Gladstone’s character. The clip then follows a montage of random deaths and anarchy being unleashed in the local community while cutting to DiCaprio and Gladstone as a married couple in love. The death toll piques the interest of Washington as we see investigators coming to Oklahoma.
The trailer shows DiCaprio’s character in a dilemma — he is fearful of his uncle who wants to take over the land of the Osage tribe and yet wants to be beside his loving wife.
Watch the trailer here:
The screenplay of Killers of the Flower Moon is written by Eric Roth alongside Scorsese. Also featuring Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, Jillian Dion and Brendan Fraser, the film revolves around a series of Oklahoma murders in the Osage Nation during the 1920s, committed after an oil fortune was discovered on tribal land.
Killers of the Flower Moon premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on May 20 to widespread critical acclaim. It will release in cinemas on October 20 before being available for streaming on Apple TV+.
