Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio face the chaotic consequences of their murder in a new Killers of the Flower Moon clip. From director Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon tackles the story of a series of mysterious murders of members of the Osage tribe in the 1920s United States. In addition to De Niro and DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon stars Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, and John Lithgow.
Ahead of the release of Killers of the Flower Moon, a new clip from Entertainment Weekly shows De Niro and DiCaprio’s characters in dire straits. In the clip, De Niro’s character chastises DiCaprio’s character for how he went about a planned murder, that was supposed to look like a suicide. DiCaprio’s character asserts that he told a presumably hired assassin to shoot the victim in the front of the head and leave the gun behind, while De Niro yells at him for being “foolish.”
Killers of the Flower Moon is a Reunion for Long-Time Collaborators De Niro and DiCaprio
DiCaprio plays Ernest Burkhart opposite De Niro’s William K Hale, both of whom were real-life figures who played a part in the Osage murders. This new Killers of the Flower Moon clip hints at the relationship between the two characters, both of which have their own moral corruptions. Hale is a mastermind behind the murder plot, while Burkhart is willing to go to extreme lengths to please Hale.
Killers of the Flower Moon is significant for the actors in that it unites the two of them in a Scorsese-directed feature for the first time. Despite this milestone, De Niro and DiCaprio’s working relationship goes 30 years back, when the two co-starred in 1993’s This Boy’s Life. According to an interview with Scorsese, it was De Niro who helped convince the director to cast DiCaprio in one of his films, after being so impressed with the emergent actor’s work on This Boy’s Life.
Since first teaming up with Scorsese in Gangs of New York, DiCaprio has become a Scorsese regular. De Niro has maintained this relationship too, which originated in Scorsese’s Mean Streets and has continued through renowned films like Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, and The Irishman. De Niro and DiCaprio did appear together in one other Scorsese-directed, co-starring in Scorsese’s 2015 short film The Audition. Killers of the Flower Moon is DiCaprio and De Niro’s shot for a feature-length unfolding of their working relationship, and if this newest clip is any indication, this effort will not disappoint.
