A new trailer for Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” will be released tomorrow. A 2-minute trailer had already been made available back in May.
The film, a great American tragedy, premiered at Cannes to rave reviews, including my own. It’s easily one of the best films you’ll see this year.
The nearly two-minute trailer gave us our first glimpse of leads Leonardo DiCaprio as Ernest Burkhart and Lily Gladstone playing Mollie Kyle, an Osage woman who has inherited a fortune. We also see Robert De Niro as Ernest’s uncle, cattleman William Hale.
The film, which clocks in at 206 minutes, cost $200 million and wrapped its production back in October of 2021. Then a series of reshoots occurred in mid-2022, both in New York City and Oklahoma.
If people were complaining about the duration of “The Irishman” then this latest one isn’t any shorter, but I was never bored. Oscar will come calling, I’m sure, it’s an automatic Best Picture candidate.
What ‘Killers’ does is hold and fascinate you in step-by-step fashion, and it radiates profound moral grief and heartache — it’s three hours of scheming and murder, and the runtime just flies by.
‘Killers’ amounts to a real and lived in world and is absolute fire-in-your-belly cinema. It’s also very measured and matter of fact in its clinical execution. It’s Scorsese’s very steady, methodical depiction of morally toxic people.
“Killers of the Flower Moon” will be released theatrically on October 6th.