‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Teaser Trailer: Martin Scorsese Tackles The Indigenous True-Crime Thriller

Martin Scorsese‘s long-delayed true-crime film “Killers of The Flower Moon” finally makes its debut at the Cannes Film Festival in two days, on May 20. And to help drum up hype, Apple/Paramount has its first teaser trailer for the historical crime film, which apparently has a runtime of 3 hours and 26 minutes.

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Scorsese’s “Flower Moon” cast features Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, Jillian Dion, and Tantoo Cardinal. Eric Roth (“Mank“) and Scorsese co-write the script, adapted David Grann‘s critically acclaimed 2017 book “Killers of The Flower Moon: The Osage Murders & The Birth of The FBI.”

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“Killers of The Flower Moon” is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, an Indigenous tribe of the Great Plains. The string of brutal crimes on tribal land later came to be known as the Reign of Terror and ended up sparking a major FBI investigation overseen by 29-year-old J. Edgar Hover and Texas Ranger Tom White. The latter role will be played by Plemons.

Here is the synopsis for the Grann novel the film was adapted from via Amazon:

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

Audiences won’t have to wait too long to see “Killers of The Flower Moon” after its Cannes premiere this weekend, as it has a limited release domestically on October 6 before going wide on October 20. Watch a teaser trailer for the film below.