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Martin Scorsese’s next movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, has been highly anticipated since it was first announced back in 2017.

It’s been around five years already, but Leonardo DiCaprio reckons it’s totally worth the wait.

DiCaprio and Robert De Niro have been brought together for the movie, which is supposed to be Scorsese’s most expensive project to date, with a reported budget of over $200 million (around R3,6 billion), notes NME.

The movie’s costume designer, Jacqueline West, who also worked with DiCaprio on The Revenant, recalled a conversation with the actor during an appearance at the Doha Film Institute:

“I was talking to Leo about it. We had lunch before I came here,” she told Deadline. “He said, ‘Jackie, I think we worked on a masterpiece.'”

“I thought for Leo to say that, was something. He doesn’t say that lightly. He has been in the business since he was a little boy.”

Killers of the Flower Moon is based on the best-selling book of the same name, set in 1920s Oklahoma, where oil deposits were discovered. It follows the serial murder of native members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes under mysterious circumstances that came to be known as the Reign of Terror.

DiCaprio plays Ernest Burkhart, the nephew of a powerful local rancher played by De Niro, while Lily Gladstone plays his Osage wife Mollie and Jesse Plemons is Tom White, the FBI agent in charge of investigating the murders.

The cast also includes Brendan Fraser, John Lithgow, and country music stars Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, and Jack White.

Besides directing, Scorsese penned the script with Dune and A Star is Born co-writer Eric Roth.

Head over to IndiWire for more information.

Production was underway from late April of 2021, and the release has been delayed multiple times. It will however be released sometime this year on Apple TV+.

We’re watching this space.

[source:nme]