Martin Scorsese Rewrote ‘Flower Moon’ Because ‘I Was Making a Movie About All the White Guys’ and It ‘Concerned Me,’ Calls Cinema Culture ‘Broken Up’

Martin Scorsese is on the cover of Time magazine ahead of the release of “Killers of the Flower Moon,” and he briefly opened up on the film’s extensive rewrites. “Flower Moo…

,” and he briefly opened up on the film’s extensive rewrites. “Flower Moon” is based on David Grann’s 2017 non-fiction book about the FBI’s investigation into a string of murders among the Osage Nation in the early 1920s. Originally, Scorsese and co-writer Eric Roth centered their film adaptation around this narrative, with Leonardo DiCaprio set to play the head FBI investigator, Tom White.

Scorsese and Roth decided to overhaul their entire “Flower Moon” script to change the perspective of the film. DiCaprio would switch roles to play the morally gray Ernest Burkhart, a World War I veteran who gets wrapped up in his uncle’s scheme to steal riches away from the Osage Nation. The new “Flower Moon” script would center on Ernest and his marriage to an Osage woman, Mollie , which becomes complicated amid the murders and the FBI’s arrival to investigate.

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