antilia — 2 years ago(September 23, 2023 11:48 AM)

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/martin-scorsese-rewrote-flower-moon-not-about-white-guys-1235720779/
“Flower Moon” is based on David Grann’s 2017 non-fiction book about the FBI’s investigation into a string of murders among the Osage Nation in the early 1920s. Originally, Scorsese and co-writer Eric Roth centered their film adaptation around this narrative, with Leonardo DiCaprio set to play the head FBI investigator, Tom White.
“After a certain point, I realized I was making a movie about all the white guys,” Scorsese told Time. “Meaning I was taking the approach from the outside in, which concerned me.”
Scorsese and Roth decided to overhaul their entire “Flower Moon” script to change the perspective of the film. DiCaprio would switch roles to play the morally gray Ernest Burkhart, a World War I veteran who gets wrapped up in his uncle’s scheme to steal riches away from the Osage Nation. The new “Flower Moon” script would center on Ernest and his marriage to an Osage woman, Mollie (Lily Gladstone), which becomes complicated amid the murders and the FBI’s arrival to investigate. Jesse Plemons stepped into the role of Tom White, now a supporting character.