Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro will officially star in their first film together for 24 years in Martin Scorsese‘s next film.
Titled Killers of the Flower Moon, the project is an adaptation of David Grann’s true-crime thriller.
DiCaprio announced that he would star in the film with De Niro while introducing the actor with a Lifetime Achievement trophy at the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAGs) earlier this week.
Cameras are set to begin rolling on the new Scorsese film this spring in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.
The film will mark Scorsese and DiCaprio’s sixth collaboration in 18 years following Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island and The Wolf of Wall Street.
In films, DiCaprio, 45, last acted opposite De Niro as a 22-year-old in 1996 drama Marvin's Room. They also previously starred together in 1993 film This Boy’s Life.
The pair starred in Scorsese's promotional short film The Audition in 2015.
Rights to Grann’s book – subtitled The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI – fetched a reported $5m in 2016.
The script has been written by Eric Roth, the Oscar-winner behind Forrest Gump and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
The non-fiction work documents the string of murders that plagued the Osage Indian tribe in Oklahoma during the 1920s after oil was found on their land. The case was deemed the FBI’s first homicide investigation.
According to Osage Nation’s Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear, De Niro will play the role of William Hale.
Scorsese’s latest project, The Irishman, marked a Goodfellas reunion with Joe Pesci who starred alongside De Niro. The Netflix film picked up 10 Oscar nominations earlier this month.
Killers of the Flower Moon will mark the director’s tenth time working with De Niro.
DiCaprio – who is also expected to appear in a Scorsese-produced TV series – has been nominated for Best Actor for his role in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
