Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon casts Jesse Plemons as its lead

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Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon has found its male lead in Jesse Plemons. Plemons will join Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiC🌳aprio, and Lily Gladstone in the upcoming crime ꦆdrama.

Based on the best-selling book of the same name, the movie is set in '20s Oklahoma and follows the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes thatဣ came to be known a🧜s the Reign of Terror. 

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Gladstone will play Mollie Burkhart, an Osage married to Ernest Burkhart (DiCaprio), who is the nephew of a powerful local rancher (De Niro). Plemons will play Tom White, the lead FBI agent investigating the murders – a character that was originally g𒅌oing to be played by DiCaprio, before he stepped back into his current, smallཧer role. 

Since his breakthrough role in cult drama Friday Night Lights, Plemons has starred in TV shows like Breaking Bad, Fargo, and Black Mirror. After years of supporting roles in movies, he's recently come to the forefront in Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things and Fred Hampton biopic 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Judas and the Black Messiah. The actor was also meant to star in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Jordan Peele's next project,𒈔 but had to ๊drop out due to scheduling conflicts with the Scorsese title.

Killers of the Flower Moon is an Apple Original movie, joining the streamer's increased output with the likes of Ridley Scott's upcoming Napoleon Bonaparte biopic, Kitbag, starring Joaquin Phoenix. Previous movies released by Apple TV Plus include the Tom Hanks-led war drama 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Greyhound and Sofia Coppola's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:On the Rocks starring Bill Murray and Rashida Jones.

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