Leonardo DiCaprio: his next highly anticipated film will last longer than Titanic

Leonardo DiCaprio is one of Hollywood’s most influential actors. For his sixth collaboration with Martin Scorsese, he will play in one of the longest films in history!

After Shutter Island, AviatorThe wolf of Wall Street or Infiltrators, to name a few, Leonardo DiCaprio will sign his sixth collaboration with director Martin Scorsese. During the Cannes Film Festival scheduled for May 2023, the filmmaker will present his new dramatic and historical thriller, Killers of the Flower Moon. The feature film will then be unveiled in dark rooms but also on the Apple TV+ streaming platform from October 18, 2023. In addition to bringing together Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, two big names in cinema, the thriller will talk about it for another of its components: its duration! Indeed, it will be necessary to empty the bladder before viewing it since it will last 3 hours and 54 minutes. A time never reached in dark rooms since Gone with the wind (3 hours 58) and the version of Hamlet of 1996 (4 hours 02).

What will talk about Killers of the Flower Moonplanned for Apple TV+?

The plot of Killers of the Flower Moon takes place in Oklahoma, in the 1920s. Martin Scorsese will focus on members of the Osage community, who were murdered en masse for settling on oil-rich land. This series of brutal murders is known today as the Reign of Terror. Leonardo DiCaprio, one of its main stars, had the chance to discover the film exclusively, and although it would be surprising to say otherwise, he describes it as “a masterpiece”.

“He does not say this word lightly”, the film’s costume designer shares Leonardo DiCaprio’s impressions

During a masterclass at the Doha Film Institute, Jacqueline West, the film’s costume designer Killers of the Flower Moon, shared the first impressions of Leonardo DiCaprio after watching the film. He mentioned “a masterpiece”which is not a term used all the time by this actor with whom she has already worked in the past: “I told Leo about it. We had lunch together before I came here. He was like, ‘Jackie, I think we’ve been working on a masterpiece.’ must be something. He doesn’t say that lightly. He’s been in the business since he was little.”

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