Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall irrupted into a flurry of cheers this afternoon as filmmaker Martin Scorsese strolled on stage to take part in a career Q&A at the London Film Festival.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Leonardo DiCaprio finally weighed in on the massive “Killers of the Flower Moon” rewrite that changed the direction of Martin Scorsese’s latest historical epic. The script originally centered on FBI agent Tom White, who DiCaprio was supposed to play, as he investigates a string of murders among the Osage Nation in the 1920s. That perspective kept the film in line with the majority of David Grann’s 2017 book of the same name, but something about telling “Flower Moon” from the FBI’s point of view did not sit right with DiCaprio or Scorsese.
“It just didn’t feel like it got to the heart of it,” DiCaprio recently told British Vogue in a joint interview with co-star Lily Gladstone. “We weren’t immersed in the Osage story. There was this tiny, small scene between Mollie and Ernest that provoked such emotion in us at the reading, and we just started to penetrate into what that relationship was, because it was so twisted and bizarre and unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before.” Ernest is 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 switched roles to Ernest. The new script would focus on Ernest and his relationship to wife Mollie (Gladstone), an Osage woman whose family members are murdered. With DiCaprio playing the lead role of Ernest, Jesse Plemons stepped in to play FBI agent Tom White, now a supporting role.
Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall irrupted into a flurry of cheers this afternoon as filmmaker Martin Scorsese strolled on stage to take part in a career Q&A at the London Film Festival.
“We’re very proud of this movie,” Julie O’Keefe, Osage clothing consultant on Killers of the Flower Moon, said of the response to Martin Scorsese’s latest feature from the Native American community.
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor It took about 100 days to shoot “Killers of the Flower Moon,” according to director Martin Scorsese and producer Daniel Lupi. That came after an extensive script rewrite, multiple interruptions due to COVID-19 and doing everything they could to ensure justice was done to the story.
With just fifteen days to go before it hits theaters, Apple Original Films wants to drum up as much hype as possible for “Killers Of The Flower Moon.” As if the film doesn’t have enough hype already: Martin Scorsese‘s first film since 2019’s “The Irishman” won unanimous praise from critics at its world premiere at Cannes in May. And the film sees the director work with two long-time collaborators: Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Barry Keoghan‘s latest profile in Esquire magazine reveals that he spent $10 to make his viral self-tape audition for Matt Reeves’ “The Batman,” which introduced Robert Pattinson as the latest iteration of the Caped Crusader. Keoghan sent in a tape to play the Riddler, though Paul Dano ended up getting the role. However, Keoghan impressed Reeves enough to land a surprise role that wasn’t on his radar: Joker.
Star Wars film is expected to fetch £1million.It is part of a collection of more than 1,800 pieces of film and TV memorabilia, including props from Indiana Jones, James Bond and A Nightmare On Elm Street, which are due to go on sale at an auction in London from November 9.Run by Propstore, the head piece worn by Antony Daniels in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope in 1977, is one of the highest valued items in the sale, with an estimated price tag of £500,000 to £1million. “I’m thrilled that Propstore has agreed to curate my collection and I trust that the pieces will go into the right hands,” said Daniels via The Independent.Iconic #movie #memorabilia could raise £11.4m at @propstore_com London auction https://t.co/fpeYxwy9pR— Robb Report UK (@RobbReportUK) October 3, 2023“I hope this can bring pleasure to Star Wars fans and collectors all around the world and give them a chance to own a piece of the real thing.”Other items set to go up for auction include Indiana Jones‘ bullwhip, Freddy Krueger’s glove worn by Robert Englund during A Nightmare On Elm Street which is estimated to sell for between £200,000 and £400,000, Leonardo DiCaprio‘s costume as Jack Dawson in Titanic and the shield used by Chris Evans in Captain America: The First Avenger.Items worn or used by Daniel Craig, Jennifer Lawrence, Marlon Brando and Cillian Murphy will also feature in the auction.Meanwhile, director Guillermo del Toro recently confirmed that he was once set to helm a Star Wars film that never came to fruition.While little is known of the axed film, del Toro’s Star Wars movie would have featured a script by David S.
Martin Scorsese returns to theaters in just over three weeks with his latest feature, “Killers Of The Flower Moon.” And as with any Scorsese film, there’s a lot of buzz about his new pic. The adaptation of David Grann‘s 2017 book of the same name may be the most anticipated movie for the rest of the year next to “Poor Things.” READ MORE: Fall Film Preview: 60+ Most Anticipated Movies To Watch But “Flower Moon” isn’t just a straight adaptation of Grann’s book, which documents the Osage County Murders in 1920s Oklahoma and the birth of the FBI.
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Rodrigo Prieto, the Oscar-nominated cinematographer, will be honored with the 2023 Árbol de la Vida – lifetime achievement award at the 13th edition of the GuadaLAjara Film Festival on Nov. 1. Taking place at the Theater at the Ace Hotel in Downtown L.A., the Mexican D.P.
Any time Martin Scorsese makes a film, it’s a big event, and his crime drama, “Killer Of The Flower Moon,” has been at the top of our Most Anticipated Films of The Year list two years in a row (there was hope that it might arrive in 2022). Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone (“Certain Women”), it’s about a series of murders that took place in Omaha’s Osage Nation in the 1920s; essentially, the Osage Native Indians were getting rich off the oil they were legally entitled to, and this made a lot of racist white people incredibly unhappy, to say the least.
Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy has revealed that studio bosses wanted to cast Leonardo DiCaprio as a key villain.David S Goyer wrote the three Batman adaptations alongside Nolan. He’s now explained how, at the premier of The Dark Knight, the head of Warner Bros studio put forward the suggestion of DiCaprio as an actor to appear in The Dark Knight Rises.Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Goyer said the boss suggested that DiCaprio should play The Riddler in the final film in the trilogy.
Leonardo DiCaprio almost starred as an entirely different character in his upcoming movie, Flowers of the Killer Moon.
Leonardo DiCaprio says that he and his colleagues in Hollywood “need to do more” regarding telling Native American stories.DiCaprio appears in new Martin Scorsese western crime drama Killers Of The Flower Moon, which follows the FBI investigation into a series of Oklahoma murders in the Osage Nation.Speaking to Vogue alongside co-star Lily Gladstone, the actor spoke of the work that still needs to be done around white America’s portrayal of native peoples on screen.“Hollywood has a long history and chequered past in its depiction of Native American people,” he said.“We need to do more. You know, we are coming towards a great reckoning of our past.
Leonardo DiCaprio was recast in “Killers of the Flower Moon”.
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Oscar season is always full of twists and turns, and the biggest one yet just dropped with “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Variety has learned exclusively that Lily Gladstone’s work as Mollie Burkhart, an Indigenous woman at the center of a sinister plot in Martin Scorsese’s crime epic, will be campaigned for the Oscars in best actress, instead of supporting where many pundits had speculated. She will campaign alongside her Oscar-winning co-star and executive producer, Leonardo DiCaprio.
Leonardo DiCaprio has only words of praise for Killers of the Flower Moon breakout star Lily Gladstone.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Stephen Fry recently revealed at the CogX Festival (via Forbes) that his voice from the “Harry Potter” audiobooks was taken by AI software and replicated without his consent, much to the horror of both himself and his agents. “I’m a proud member of [actors’ union SAG-AFTRA]. As you know, we’ve been on strike for three months now.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Mark Wahlberg said in an interview with Cigar Aficionado magazine that one of the reasons he pivoted to producing was because it became clear in his acting work that he’d always be taking a backseat to fellow mega-stars like Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio. Starting around “The Fighter” in 2010, Wahlberg became a producer or an executive producer on nearly all of his major releases. “I started becoming a producer out of necessity,” Wahlberg said.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Casino Royale” director Martin Campbell recently told Express UK that he was concerned Daniel Craig wasn’t sexy enough to be James Bond when his name was thrown into the ring to replace Pierce Brosnan as 007. The filmmaker had previously directed Brosnan in the beloved 1995 Bond tentpole “GoldenEye” and was returning to the franchise at the time to launch a new 007 following Brosnan’s exit after 2002’s “Die Another Day.” “My only reticence with Daniel…he was really a superb actor, there’s no doubt about that,” Campbell said.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Miriam Margolyes writes in her new memoir, “Oh Miriam! Stories from an Extraordinary Life,” that Steve Martin was “horrid” to her on the set of Frank Oz’s 1986 “Little Shop of Horrors” movie musical (via HuffPo UK). Martin played the sadistic dentist Orin Scrivello, while Margolyes, best known these days for playing Professor Sprout in the “Harry Potter” film series, starred as his character’s assistant.
When it comes to Fall 2023 theatrical releases, none may be more anticipated than Martin Scorsese‘s “Killers Of The Flower Moon.” Scorsese’s adaptation of David Grann‘s 2017 book of the same name already premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to much acclaim. But as the film approaches its October theatrical release, EW reports that the director wants to emphasize how different his movie is from Grann’s book despite following the same historical events.