Based on David Grann’s bestselling book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, the trailer gets some background from Apple TV+’s official synopsis:
“At the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnight. The wealth of these Native Americans immediately attracted white interlopers, who manipulated, extorted and stole as much Osage money as they could before resorting to murder.”
DiCaprio plays Ernest Burkhart, the nephew of a powerful rancher and the improbable husband of Osage settlement resident Mollie Kyle, while De Niro plays William Hale, a wicked cattle rancher suspected of organizing the killings of Osage tribespeople.
DiCaprio’s character provides ominous narration in a thick midwestern accent throughout the trailer. “There are many, so many, hungry wolves,” he reads from a children’s book at one point. “Can…
