Martin Scorsese Reveals How Life Led Him to 'Killers of the Flower Moon'

Martin Scorsese talked about his decades-old connection with Native American stories and what led him to make Killers of the Flower Moon.

The Big Picture With just a few days away till the premiere of highly anticipated Killers of the Flower Moon, it’s time to listen to what acclaimed director Martin Scorsese has to say about it. The subject of the movie is timely: It covers the mysterious murders of members from the Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma. But, as the director revealed to The New Yorker, the idea had been brewing in his head for almost five decades.

"I think it goes back to a time in ’74, when I had this opportunity to spend some time, only a day or two, maybe two days, with the Oglala Lakota tribe, in South Dakota, and I was involved with a project that didn’t work out. It was a traumatic experience, and I was so young I didn’t understand. I didn’t understand the damage and the poverty.

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