Scorsese is directing the project on a script from Oscar winner Eric Roth (Mank) and is producing alongside Imperative Entertainment’s Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas and Appian Way Productions.
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It will also be the tenth partnership between the director and De Niro after 1973’s Mean Streets, 1976’s Taxi Driver, 1977’s New York, New York, 1980’s Raging Bull, 1983’s The King of Comedy, 1990’s Goodfellas, 1991’s Cape Fear, 1995’s Casino and 2019’s The Irishman.
Killers of the Flower Moon marks DiCaprio and Scorsese’s seventh collaboration together after working on multiple Oscar-nominated and winning films including 2002’s Gangs of New York, 2004’s The Aviator, which was DiCaprio’s first Oscar nod with Scorsese, 2006’s The Departed, 2010’s Shutter Island, 2013’s The Wolf of Wall Street and the 2015 short film The Audition.