Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon adds Jesse Plemons to cast

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

A Martin Scorsese film is always something to look forward to and his latest is certainly shaping up to be something special as the director's next project will be an adaptation of David Grann's best-selling crime thriller Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI for Apple. The film already boasts an impressive cast, but it has now been announced that Jesse Plemons has signed on to star in the film.

The true-life mystery tale of Killers of the Flower Moon deals with the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma in the 1920s, who became quite wealthy after oil was discovered beneath their land. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off and the ensuing spiral of conspiracy, greed and murder got so bad that the FBI had to step in. Jesse Plemons is slated to play Tom White, the lead FBI agent investigating the murders, with Lily Gladstone playing Mollie Burkhart, an Osage married to Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), the nephew of a powerful local rancher played by Robert De Niro. Production on Killers of the Flower Moon is expected to kick off this May.

Martin Scorsese teased to Premiere last year that Killers of the Flower Moon will likely be styled in the Western genre. "We think it’s a Western," Scorsese said. "It happened in 1921-1922 in Oklahoma. There are certainly cowboys, but they have cars and also horses. The film is mainly about the Osage, an Indian tribe that was given horrible territory, which they loved because they said to themselves that Whites would never be interested in it. Then we discovered oil there and, for about ten years, the Osage became the richest people in the world, per capita. Then, as with the Yukon and the Colorado mining regions, the vultures disembark, the White man, the European arrives, and all was lost. There, the underworld had such control over everything that you were more likely to go to jail for killing a dog than for killing an Indian." Jesse Plemons was recently seen in Judas and the Black Messiah (where he also played an FBI agent) and will next be seen in Jungle Cruise alongside Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt on July 30, 2021. You can check out a review of Judas and the Black Messiah from our own Chris Bumbray right here.