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Film crews are back for ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ additional scenes

Crew members started returning to Oklahoma around May 1, and is back in force now, adding palpable energy - and traffic - to the streets of Pawhuska

As the first total lunar eclipse of 2022 gets ready to grace North America with a super flower blood moon, the crew of the movie “Killers of the Flower Moon” have returned to Pawhuska to shoot final footage.

The film crew started returning to Oklahoma around May 1, and is back in force now, adding palpable energy ­– and traffic ­– to the streets of Pawhuska.

The lunar eclipse will start around 9:15 p.m. Sunday, May 15, and continue until 1:15 a.m. Monday. Totality will be from 10:29 p.m. to 11:45 p.m., according to NASA. During totality, and depending on pollution and other factors, the moon likely will look supernaturally large and red due to how the light bends around Earth as it lines up between the sun and moon.

The book by David Grann takes its name from an Osage saying about how small flowers that bloom on the prairie in April are overcrowded each spring in May by larger plants. Courtesy Photo/NASA

The book by David Grann takes its name from an Osage saying about how small flowers that bloom on the prairie are overcrowded each spring by larger plants.

The film, directed by Martin Scorsese, will tell the story of the Osage Reign of Terror in the 1910s and ‘20s, when greedy whites befriended, married and murdered Osages for the oil headrights that had brought them great wealth.

The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons and John Lithgow but it also features several Osages – including Everett Waller, Yancey Red Corn, Addie Roanhorse and the late Larry Sellers – in speaking roles as well as in background parts. It was filmed largely in Pawhuska, Bartlesville and Fairfax.

None of the stars are expected to return for the final filming.

No release date has been officially set.

A large crane is parked on the Osage Nation campus by crews for “Killers of the Flower Moon” on May 12. LOUISE RED CORN/Osage News

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  • Louise Red Corn

    Title: Freelance Author
    Twitter: @louiseredcorn
    Languages: English, Italian, rusty but revivable Russian

    Louise Red Corn has been a news reporter for 34 years and a photographer for even longer. She grew up in Northern California, the youngest child of two lawyers, her father a Pearl Harbor survivor who later became a state judge and her mother a San Francisco native who taught law at the University of California at Davis.

    After graduating from the U.C. Berkley with a degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures with no small amount of coursework in Microbiology, she moved to Rome, Italy, where she worked as a photographer and wordsmith for the United Nation’s International Fund for Agricultural Development, specializing in the French-speaking countries of Africa.

    When the radioactive cloud from Chernobyl parked over Rome in 1986, she escaped to New York City to work for the international editions of Time Magazine. She left Time for Knight-Ridder newspapers in Biloxi, Miss., Detroit and Lexington, Ky., During nearly 20 years with Knight-Ridder, she was a stringer (freelancer) for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Parade Magazine.

    In 2004, she married Raymond Red Corn and moved to Oklahoma, where she worked for the Tulsa World before she bought the weekly newspaper in Barnsdall and turned a tired newspaper into the award-winning Bigheart Times, which she sold in 2018. She hired on at the Osage News in early 2022.

    Throughout her career she has won dozens of state, national and international journalism awards.

    Red Corn is comfortable reporting on nearly any topic, the more complex the better, but her first love is covering courts and legal issues. Her proudest accomplishment was helping to exonerate a Tennessee man facing the death penalty after he was wrongfully charged with capital murder in Kentucky, a state he had never visited.

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Title: Freelance Author
Twitter: @louiseredcorn
Languages: English, Italian, rusty but revivable Russian

Louise Red Corn has been a news reporter for 34 years and a photographer for even longer. She grew up in Northern California, the youngest child of two lawyers, her father a Pearl Harbor survivor who later became a state judge and her mother a San Francisco native who taught law at the University of California at Davis.

After graduating from the U.C. Berkley with a degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures with no small amount of coursework in Microbiology, she moved to Rome, Italy, where she worked as a photographer and wordsmith for the United Nation’s International Fund for Agricultural Development, specializing in the French-speaking countries of Africa.

When the radioactive cloud from Chernobyl parked over Rome in 1986, she escaped to New York City to work for the international editions of Time Magazine. She left Time for Knight-Ridder newspapers in Biloxi, Miss., Detroit and Lexington, Ky., During nearly 20 years with Knight-Ridder, she was a stringer (freelancer) for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Parade Magazine.

In 2004, she married Raymond Red Corn and moved to Oklahoma, where she worked for the Tulsa World before she bought the weekly newspaper in Barnsdall and turned a tired newspaper into the award-winning Bigheart Times, which she sold in 2018. She hired on at the Osage News in early 2022.

Throughout her career she has won dozens of state, national and international journalism awards.

Red Corn is comfortable reporting on nearly any topic, the more complex the better, but her first love is covering courts and legal issues. Her proudest accomplishment was helping to exonerate a Tennessee man facing the death penalty after he was wrongfully charged with capital murder in Kentucky, a state he had never visited.

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