Apple Will Reportedly Team Up With Martin Scorsese on a $180 million Movie'Killers of the Flower Moon' will star Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.
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After teaming up with Netflix last year forThe Irishman, director Martin Scorsese's next major flick will reportedly have backing from Apple.Variety,The Hollywood ReporterandDeadlineall report that Apple is in final talks with Paramount to jointly backKillers of the Flower Moon, a period crime drama with a $180 million-plus budget, and star names attached including Robert de Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Based on abook by the same name,它描绘了一个谋杀案的调查Osage Nation natives during the early 1920s in Oklahoma. Profit-sharing from oil deposits on their lands had made them wealthy, and eventually targets. A subsequentinquiry by the Bureau of Investigation found widespread corruption among local officials, just as that agency began morphing into its current state as the FBI.
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For Apple the deal is another big movie signing after itsacquisition of Tom Hanks' WWII naval dramaGreyhound,and potentially carries an even higher profile. According to the reports, Apple will fund the project as its own original movie, while Paramount will handle distribution for the worldwide theatrical release.
This is far from the the director's first tie-up with Apple. Before the days of social distancing, heremotely directed a shot in The Departed via iChat, and evenappeared in an ad for its AI voice assistant Siri. And now as big-budget streaming operations look for prestigious originals, Scorsese is finding homes for some of his most expensive ideas.
