White settlers Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro clash with the native Osage tribe, casting a pall of doom over a patch of Oklahoma’s oil-rich land in the official trailer of Martin Martin Scorsese’s upcoming western crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon.
Dropped by Apple TV on Wednesday evening, the two-minute-23-second-long trailer begins with Leonardo DiCaprio raising the colour question to Lily Gladstone’s native woman, “What colour is your skin?” Gladstone’s reply comes with a polite smile and an icy intonation, “My colour.” The racial tension, so palpably visualised, is followed by a voiceover from Robert De Niro, describing how Oklahoma’s Osage people are a soft target because of their oil-rich land.
The scene shifts to De Niro asking his nephew, played by DiCaprio, to join him in his pursuit of taking over the land of the Osage tribe. We also see a montage of random deaths and anarchy being unleashed in the local community while cutting to DiCaprio and Gladstone as a couple.
Watch the trailer here:
DiCaprio, who previously worked in Scorsese’s Shutter Island, Gangs of New York, The Departed, The Aviator and The Wolf of the Wall Street, shared the trailer on his Instagram handle on Wednesday. “Watch the official trailer for #KillersOfTheFlowerMoon - exclusively in theaters this October,” he wrote.
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.
The film will mark the second collaboration between DiCaprio and De Niro after nearly 30 years. The duo was last seen together in 1993’s This Boy's Life.
Killers of the Flower Moon premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on May 20 to widespread critical acclaim. It is scheduled to release in select cinemas in October before being available for streaming on Apple TV+.
