If all goes well, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon film will finally be seen by the public this October before a later streaming release. Marketing is starting to kick off, and, with a new teaser circulating, buzz is building for silent Lily Gladstone.
The Reservation Dogs and Billions actress appears in the above trailer for the film based on a true story alongside co-star Leonardo DiCaprio. In the piece, she plays the real person who was the wife of the real person DiCaprio is playing and, despite the footage just featuring DiCaprio’s voice, fans are already demanding more prominence for her after the project gets out to cinemas.
For those who have not read the book the film is based on or followed the true events, Gladstone’s Mollie Burkhart is one of the key characters involved in the whole sordid story. She endured incredible pain, saw many of her loved ones die, was betrayed by several people and, with all this to act out of, another fan of Gladstone says she should be prepped for Best Actress right now.
Of course, any actor or actress who is not white getting an Oscar is still a tall order today (only one Indigenous American, Buffy Sainte-Marie, walked away with a statue for a musical composition in 1982, and she had to share it). This said, people who believe in Gladstone are still not being dissuaded about her chances, and later in the discourse, a different person who believes in her says if she is not invited to the next Academy Awards ceremony the film is eligible for, they should be destroyed in an act of vengeance.
Killers of the Flower Moon opens Oct. 6 in select theaters before a wider release Oct. 20. In addition to DiCaprio and Gladstone, the work also features Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Brendan Fraser, John Lithgow, and musician Jack White in a role as well. The film is going to be very long, and, while some adaptations leave a bad taste in the mouths of those who create the source material they work from, it sounds like this will not be the case here as David Grann says they worked hard to do it justice. The film was shot on location, the Osage Nation was involved, and several members of the tribe are even getting to act in the movie.
