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Leonardo DiCaprio Says ‘Flower Moon’ Script From FBI’s POV Got Axed Because It Didn’t ‘Get to the Heart’ of the Story: ‘We Weren’t Immersed in the Osage’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leonardo DiCaprio finally weighed in on the massive “Killers of the Flower Moon” rewrite that changed the direction of Martin ...
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Martin Scorsese’s Axed ‘Flower Moon’ Script Was Over 200 Pages Long and ‘Was Going to Take Four-and-a-Half Hours Just to Read’

“Our script was over two hundred pages,” he also confirmed to The New Yorker about the original “Flower Moon” screenplay. “One night we had a big reading: myself and Leo and Eric and my daughter, a ...
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Martin Scorsese on Scrapping the Original ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Script: ‘It’s Not a Whodunnit, It’s Who Didn’t Do It’

At his Cannes press conference, the director recalled the moment when he and Leonardo DiCaprio knew the film had to shift its focus from the FBI to the Osage people. Speaking to the press following ...
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Jesse Plemons Takes Over DiCaprio’s Original Role in Scorsese’s ‘Flower Moon’ After Script Changes

Martin Scorsese's big-budget Western drama is aiming to kick off production in May. Per The Hollywood Reporter, “Plemons will play Tom White, the lead FBI agent investigating the murders.” The role of ...
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Leonardo DiCaprio Says ‘Flower Moon’ Script From FBI’s POV Got Axed Because It Didn’t ‘Get to the Heart’ of the Story: ‘We Weren’t Immersed in the Osage’

DiCaprio plays Ernest Burkhart, a World War I veteran who is pulled into his uncle’s greedy plot to rob the Osage Nation of its wealth. When the original script for “Flower Moon” was axed, DiCaprio ...