Variety FYC Fest: Oscar-Nominated Producers Share Storytelling Journeys Behind ‘Maestro,’ ‘Spider-Verse,’ ‘Flower Moon’ and More
variety.comVariety FYC Fest: The Producers. The conversations were moderated by Variety’s senior artisans editor Jazz Tangcay and senior awards editor Clayton Davis. ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Producer Daniel Lupi on Filming in Oklahoma, Striving for Authenticity Producer Daniel Lupi became involved in “Killers of the Flower Moon” after the script was rewritten to center the relationship between Ernest (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Burkhart (Lily Gladstone), contrasting from the original version of the script where DiCaprio was playing FBI agent Tom White.
Lupi said Martin Scorsese described the new version as a “who didn’t do it.” “He wanted to go right into the emotional core of the story and not be Tom White coming in and saving the day,” Lupi said of Scorsese’s intent for the film.
Filming in Oklahoma allowed the team to immerse themselves in the past. “The location where we blew the house up was one block away from where the real house exploded.
And so you got to realize that a lot of the Osage and their relatives, they had such a connection to these places,” Lupi said. “We were trying to service the movie for Marty.
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