Though Grann's book devoted many pages to the connections between the cases and the birth of the FBI, less time is spent in Scorsese's film on the murder investigations. A series of murders prompts increased panic among the Osage, who are preyed on by a host of greedy killers. But that wealth is closely controlled by appointed white guardians. Since finding oil reserves on their land, the Osage were then the richest people per capita in the country. Though Grann's book affords many possible inroads to the story, Scorsese and co-writer Eric Roth center their story on Ernest Burkhart (DiCaprio, in his seventh collaboration with Scorsese), a WWI veteran who falls for Mollie Brown (Gladstone), the member of a wealthy Osage family. Along with the film's expansive cast, attendees included Apple CEO Tim Cook, as well as actors Cate Blanchett, Salma Hayek, Paul Dano and Isabelle Huppert. The red carpet drew a wide spectrum of stars. It’s taken its time to come around but Apple did so great by us,” Scorsese said, addressing the crowd after the screening. “We shot this a couple of years ago in Oklahoma. It drew a lengthy standing ovation and repeated cheers for Scorsese, 80, who premiered his first film at Cannes since 1985's “After Hours." Nothing has been more anticipated at this year’s Cannes Film Festival than “Killers of the Flower Moon” - a historical epic, a bitter crime film and a Great Plains Western - which appeared to meet those expectations. Adapting David Grann's nonfiction bestseller, it stretches nearly three and a half hours and cost Apple $200 million to make. Scorsese's latest - starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro - is one of his most ambitious. CANNES, France - Martin Scorsese unveiled “Killers of the Flower Moon” at Cannes on Saturday, debuting a sweeping American epic about greed and exploitation on the bloody plains of an Osage Nation reservation in 1920s Oklahoma.
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