By Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are teaming up for their first proper collaboration since The Wolf of Wall Street, and it already sounds like it's going to be chucking itself at the Oscars as hard as possible.
According to Variety, DiCaprio will star in Scorsese's adaptation of David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon. It tells the story of the Osage Nation, a Native American tribe which in the 1920s suddenly became the richest people in the world per capita when oil was struck under their land. Then things - as things tend to in any story about America, oil and native peoples - started to go very bloodily wrong, culminating in a spree of murders which the newly formed FBI has to sort out. The script will be put together by Eric Roth, who wrote A Star Is Born, Forrest Gump and Munich.
"When I read David Grann’s book, I immediately started seeing it — the people, the settings, the action — and I knew that I had to make it into a movie," said Scorsese. "I’m so excited to be working with Eric Roth and reuniting with Leo DiCaprio to bring this truly unsettling American story to the screen."
Scorsese and DiCaprio's is one of the most rock-solid actor-director collaborations in cinema, with the pair's five films pulling in about $1.38 billion between them. It all started in 2002 with Gangs of New York, followed by The Aviator in 2004 and The Departed in 2006. Then came Shutter Island in 2010 and The Wolf of Wall Street in 2013, the pair's two biggest box office successes together.
They also did a slightly bizarre short in 2015 called The Audition, in which DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Robert De Niro jolly their way through Asia trying to get a part in Scorsese's next film. It was a promo thing for a casino, obviously, but somehow this 16-minute film cost $70 million.
