“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.
The film, adapted from David Grann’s bestseller by Scorsese and Eric Roth and based on a true story, is set in Oklahoma in the 1920s when oil brought a fortune to the Native Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnight.
The wealth immediately attracted white interlopers, who manipulated, extorted, and stole as much Osage money as they could before resorting to murder.
The pic debuted earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and newcomer Lily Gladstone.
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