It’s very rare that you’ll see Leonardo DiCaprio starring in a bad movie, although that argument could be ignited fairly quickly depending on how you feel about Netflix’s polarizing comedy Don’t Look Up.
However, the Academy Award winner’s collaborations with Martin Scorsese have generally been widely-acclaimed and immensely popular offerings, which gives plenty of reason to be excited for Killers of the Flower Moon. For some reason, though, the literary adaptation comes burdened with a $200 million budget, so it better be worth the investment.
It’s been almost two years since principal photography wrapped, but we’ve got no idea when the end product will finally be released. Scorsese is a noted perfectionist, so perhaps the benefit of playing exclusively on streaming has imbued the enemy of all things Marvel to take his sweet time putting the finishing touches on what should be another sweeping epic.
If the early reactions are any indications, Killers of the Flower Moon could even earn the rare distinction of being labeled a masterpiece, something touted by the completely and 100 percent unbiased DiCaprio, as costume designer Jacqueline West revealed to Deadline.
“I was talking to Leo about it. We had lunch before I came here. He said, ‘Jackie, I think we worked on a masterpiece’. I thought for Leo to say that, was something. He doesn’t say that lightly. He has been in the business since he was a little boy.”
To be fair, DiCaprio has seen and done it all throughout a 30 year-career that’s been largely defined by top-tier exercises in cinema, so if he says Killers of the Flower Moon is a masterpiece, then maybe it is.
