Killers of the Flower Moon is being rewritten due to Leonardo DiCaprio. In a recent interview with writer Eric Roth, Roth confirms the rumors of DiCaprio being the reason for rewrites:
“I spent four or five years on this book, ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ which everybody should read. It’s a wonderful book,” Roth said. “My screenplay I think was accurate to the book. It’s the story of Osage Indians, 1921. The poorest people in America who discover oil in this terrible land in Oklahoma where they’ve been driven to. Then every killer in America comes to kill 184 of them for their money, but this really heroic guy comes in [to help].”
Roth continued:
“That’s supposed to start filming in March once the Covid clears out, and it’s Martin Scorsese. They’ll be continuing rewrites with that. Leonardo [DiCaprio] wanted some things changed that we argued about. He won half of [the arguments]. I won half of them. So that’s happening.”
This comes after The Hollywood Reporter reported the rewrite conflicts happening in the Martin Scorsese film:
Per THR: “In the revised version, DiCaprio would portray villain Robert De Niro’s nephew, torn between love and the evil machinations of his uncle. A source with knowledge of the situation says Paramount felt that turned the film into a moody and less commercial character study. Once Scorsese and DiCaprio revised ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ Paramount empowered DiCaprio’s longtime manager, Rick Yorn, to shop the project. No doubt the studio hoped no one would tackle it. Which might persuade Scorsese to come back to the original idea and the hoped-for budget.”
Killers of the Flower Moon is expected to start filming in 2021.
Source: IndieWire
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