William Belleau, Louis Cancelmi, Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Tatanka Means, Michael Abbott Jr., Pat Healy, and Scott Shepherd joined in April. In March, Tantoo Cardinal, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins and Jillian Dion were added to the cast. As a result, it was reported that Jesse Plemons was cast as Tom White to replace DiCaprio, while DiCaprio was cast as Ernest Burkhart.
Though the role of Tom White, the lead FBI agent, was initially written for DiCaprio, DiCaprio pushed to have his role changed to the nephew of the film's primary antagonist played by De Niro. In February 2021, Lily Gladstone and Jesse Plemons were added to the cast. In May 2020, Apple TV+ was announced to co-finance and co-distribute the film, with Paramount still distributing. Paramount was still open to a deal to be involved with the film alongside an additional partner. Meanwhile, Scorsese had reached out to Netflix and Apple TV+ to finance and distribute the film, as Paramount had concerns about the film's budget reaching $200 million. In April 2020, it was announced that the filming of Killers of the Flower Moon had been postponed indefinitely in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
At the 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards on January 19, 2020, DiCaprio officially announced that he and De Niro will star in the film. In December 2019, Scorsese's cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto confirmed that the film was expected to start principal photography in March 2020, adding that the "look and feel of the film" was still being figured out. Days later, it was reported that De Niro had joined the cast with filming tentatively set to commence in the summer of 2020. On July 26, 2019, Scorsese traveled to the Osage campus in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, to meet with Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear on how the Osage Nation could help with the film's production. In June 2019, it was announced that Paramount Pictures would distribute the film. At that point, filming was due to begin in the summer of 2019. However, production stalled until October 2018, when it was announced that the film would be Scorsese's next effort after completing The Irishman (2019). In July 2017, production designer Dante Ferretti revealed that filming would begin in early 2018, with Scorsese directing and DiCaprio starring.
In April 2017, it was revealed that Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro were considering making the film, adapted by Eric Roth. On March 10, 2016, Imperative Entertainment won the bidding war to make a film adaptation of David Grann's nonfiction book Killers of the Flower Moon and paid $5 million the studio's Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas would produce the film.
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