The collaborators have taken on many projects in the past dealing with unsettling and important stories in American history, so this project fits right in for the two talents.
David Grann previously authored The Lost City of Z which was adapted by Amazon Studios in 2017 and starred Charlie Hunnam and Robert Pattinson.
The Osage people were the richest in the world after oil on their land was unearthed. until they were murdered one by one and a massive conspiracy was uncovered.
The source material published in 2017 is about the Osage native American murders that took place in Osage County, Oklahoma in the 1920s, and was one of the newly-formed FBI’s first cases.