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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ may be delayed to May 2023

According to recent reports, the film may premiere at the Cannes Film Festival

For Osages hoping for a fall release of the highly anticipated film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” they may have to wait a little longer.

According to recent reports in Deadline and Variety, Apple has pushed back the release date of the film to coincide with the Cannes Film Festival in May 2023.

The Apple original film, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Lily Gladstone, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Jesse Plemons, is an Eric Roth adaptation of David Grann’s bestselling book, “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.” The book details the true story of the systematic murders of Osage tribal members for their oil wealth in the 1920s and how the investigation formed the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

According to the reports, the delay in the film’s release is to give it a chance at major awards, such as the Oscars. The film will have a theatrical release through Paramount after it premieres at various film festivals. The film will also stream on Apple TV+.

Filming officially wrapped in fall of 2021, but director Martin Scorsese and film crew returned to Pawhuska in May to film a community dance scene on the Osage Nation campus. Hundreds of Osages who took part in the film’s production as crew, extras or cast members, were invited to take part in the scene and invited friends and family. The scene was filmed toward the end of the day as the sun went down. Many participants took photos with Scorsese afterward, and other crew members who became close with the community.

The Osage News has spoken off the record with Osages who were involved with the filming but since they are bound by non-disclosure agreements, they cannot speak about their experience until after the film premieres.

The film’s cast boasts some of the best actors in Hollywood, Native and non-Native. The film also stars Brendan Fraser, John Lithgow, Tatanka Means, Michael Abbott Jr., Pat Healy, Scott Shepherd, William Belleau, Louis Cancelmi, Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Tantoo Cardinal, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins and Jillian Dion.

An official release date for the film has not been announced by Apple.

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Shannon Shaw Duty
Shannon Shaw Dutyhttps://osagenews.org

Title: Editor
Email: sshaw20@gmail.com
Twitter: @dutyshaw
Topic Expertise: Columnist, Culture, Community
Languages spoken: English, Osage (intermediate), Spanish (beginner)

Shannon Shaw Duty, Osage from the Grayhorse District, is the editor of the award-winning Osage News, the official independent media of the Osage Nation. She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and a master’s degree in Legal Studies with an emphasis in Indigenous Peoples Law. She currently sits on the Freedom of Information Committee for the Society of Professional Journalists. She has served as a board member for LION Publishers, as Vice President for the Pawhuska Public Schools Board of Education, on the Board of Directors for the Native American Journalists Association (now Indigenous Journalists Association) and served as a board member and Chairwoman for the Pawhuska Johnson O’Malley Parent Committee. She is a Chips Quinn Scholar, a former instructor for the Freedom Forum’s Native American Journalism Career Conference and the Freedom Forum’s American Indian Journalism Institute. She is a former reporter for The Santa Fe New Mexican. She is a 2012 recipient of the Native American 40 Under 40 from the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development. In 2014 she helped lead the Osage News to receive NAJA's Elias Boudinot Free Press Award. The Osage News won Best Newspaper from the SPJ-Oklahoma Chapter in their division 2018-2022. Her award-winning work has been published in Indian Country Today, The Washington Post, the Center for Public Integrity, NPR, the Associated Press, Tulsa World and others. She currently resides in Pawhuska, Okla., with her husband and together they share six children, two dogs and two cats.

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