Acclaimed US filmmaker Martin Scorsese's highly-anticipated movie “Killers of the Flower Moon” will be screened at the 6th edition of the El Gouna Film Festival.
GFF is scheduled to take place from October 13 to 20 at El Gouna Resort-town in the Red Sea governorate.
The festival, one of the leading film festivals in the MENA region, was launched in 2017. It began as a project of passion for art, culture, and most importantly filmmaking. Each edition has become a personal milestone for filmmakers across the region.
GFF has been paving the road for all keen filmmakers, aspiring young talents, and enthusiastic cinephiles who may partake in its culture of nurturing dreams and turning visions into reality.
“Killers of the Flower Moon” is based on David Grann’s best-selling book of the same name. It is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial targeting and murder of members of the oil-rich Osage tribe and the investigation into the string of brutal crimes by the FBI.
The movie brings together an impressive ensemble, led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, Jillian Dion, Tantoo Cardinal, Brendan Fraser, and Grammy Award-winning musicians Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson.
The cast also includes Scott Shepherd, Pat Healy, William Belleau, Louis Cancelmi, Tatanka Means, Michael Abbott Jr., and Gary Basaraba.
The movie features DiCaprio as Ernest Burkhart, the nephew of a powerful local rancher (De Niro) who becomes intertwined in the Osage Nation murders.
Burkhart is married to an Indigenous woman, played by Gladstone. Plemons stars as Tom White, the lead FBI agent investigating the murders.
It was initially conceived for DiCaprio to play the FBI agent, but he reconfigured the script after deciding to switch roles to the more morally ambiguous Ernest.
“Killers of the Flower Moon” was produced alongside Imperative Entertainment, Sikelia Productions, and Appian Way. Producers are Scorsese, Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, and Daniel Lupi, with DiCaprio, Rick Yorn, Adam Sommer, Marianne Bower, Lisa Frechette, John Atwood, Shea Kammer, and Niels Juul serving as executive producers.
The Apple Original Films drama marks the first time DiCaprio and De Niro worked together in 30 years. They collaborated for the first time in Michael Caton-Jones’ 1993 “This Boy’s Life”.
“Killers of the Flower Moon” clocks in at 3 hours and 26 minutes. It debuted at this year’s Cannes Film Festival before opening in theaters on October 20.
The movie will be released exclusively in theaters worldwide, in partnership with Paramount Pictures, before streaming globally on Apple TV at an unspecified date.
The screening marks Scorsese’s first time presenting a movie at Cannes since winning best director for “After Hours” in 1986.
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