The rewrite of “Flower Moon” was his concern that the story revolved exclusively around white characters.
Martin Scorsese appears on the cover of Time magazine before the premiere of Killers of the Flower Moon and spoke briefly about the film’s extensive rewrites.
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“Flower Moon” is based on the nonfiction book by David Grann 2017 about the FBI investigation into a series of murders among the Osage Nation in the early 1920s. Originally, Scorsese and co-writer Eric Roth focused their film adaptation around this narrative, with Leonardo Dicaprio playing lead FBI investigator Tom White.


“After a certain point, I realized I was making a movie about all white people.”Scorsese told Time. “Which means he was taking an outside-in approach, which worried me.”
Scorsese and Roth decided to revise the 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 becomes embroiled in his uncle’s plot to steal wealth from the Osage Nation. The new “Flower Moon” script would focus on Ernest and his marriage to an Osage woman, Mollie (Lily Gladstone), which becomes complicated amid the murders and the arrival of the FBI to investigate. Jesse Plemons took on the role of Tom White, now a supporting character.
The rewrite of “Flower Moon” was his concern that the story revolved exclusively around white characters.
Martin Scorsese on modern film culture
Elsewhere in his interview with Time, Scorsese talked about the state of film culture.
“It should be a film culture, you know? But right now everything is fragmenting and disintegrating in some way,” she said, alluding to the fact that streaming platforms are changing movie-going habits. He noted that when he was a child “not everyone liked musicals. Not everyone liked westerns. Not everyone liked gangster movies or film noir. But at that time, we would just go to the cinema and that was what was shown.”
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“Killers of the Flower Moon” opens in theaters nationwide on October 19 from Apple and Paramount.
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