Killers of the Flower Moon hit theaters October 20 2023
is based on a 2017 book of the same name that tells the horrifying true story of how Osage Indians were systematically murdered in the 1920s for land and oil.have a surprising connection to this film, as their land in Pawhuska, Oklahoma – which now spans a size of almost half of Rhode Island at almost 680 square miles – was the scene for many of those murders.
The Drummond family had already begun growing their wealth in the decades before this, but by the 1920s the family were among the top 100 landowners in the country, according to a 2022 article in Bloomberg, and often "borrowed from Osage estates, probated Osage wills, and collected on debts that they claimed as owners of a government-licensed store".
The film received critical acclaim when it premiered at Cannes Film Festival back in May, and star Lily Gladstone has praised Martin for rewriting the script to focus on the relationship between Mollie Burkhart and her husband Ernest, rather than the FBI and the "white men".have raised their five children and are now empty nesters.
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