then watch Kill the Irishman... true story
Posted on 04/07/2021 11:03:09 AM PDT by mylife
Apple Original Films continues to expand the cast for the Martin Scorsese-directed thriller Killers of the Flower Moon.
Joining Leonardo DiCaprio are William Belleau (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) and Louis Cancelmi (The Irishman), along with Grammy-winning singer-songwriters Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson.
Set in 1920s Oklahoma, Killers of the Flower Moon depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror.
Belleau will play Henry Roan, an Osage rancher with close ties to DiCaprio’s Burkhart family. Cancelmi is Kelsie Morrison, a local hustler and friend of Burkhart. Isbell, who makes his acting debut in the film, plays Bill Smith, an adversary of Ernest Burkhart, while Sturgill Simpson joins as infamous rodeo champion and bootlegger Henry Grammer.
Belleau was born in Williams Lake, BC, on Alkali Lake, a small reservation also known to First Nations Secwepemc as Esketemc. Among his notable credits are Blackway starring Anthony Hopkins, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The Killing, Netflix’s Frontier, Van Helsing, Arctic Air, Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle, Loudermilk, Supergirl and Blood Quantum. Belleau is represented by Premiere Talent Management.
Cancelmi’s credits include Boardwalk Empire, Blue Bloods, Scorsese’s The Irishman and the upcoming The Eyes of Tammy Faye. He is represented by Cyrena Esposito at Red Letter Entertainment and Gersh.
Isbell broke through in 2013 with the release of Southeastern. His next two albums, Something More Than Free (2015) and The Nashville Sound (2017), won Grammys for Best Americana Album & Best American Roots Song. Isbell’s song “Maybe It’s Time” was featured in the 2019 reboot of A Star Is Born. His latest full-length album, Reunions (2020), is an acclaimed collection of 10 new songs. He is repped by Alexandra Sera and Andrew Colvin at WME & Traci Thomas at TT Management.
Simpson was recently seen in Melina Matsoukas’ film Queen & Slim and Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die, for which he wrote and performed the theme song. Simpson made his acting debut in the CBS All Access series $1 from Jason Mosberg and Craig Zobel. In October 2020, Simpson released his first bluegrass project, Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1–The Butcher Shoppe Sessions. The album was conceived while he was recovering at home after being hospitalized with coronavirus, and saw him reimagining songs from across his catalog backed by some of Nashville’s finest acoustic virtuosos. He released Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 2 –The Cowboy Arms Sessions in December 2020, featuring “Hobo Cartoon” co-written with Merle Haggard. His 2014 Metamodern Sounds in Country Music album was Grammy nominated. Other Grammy nom highlights include 2016’s A Sailor’s Guide To Earth (Grammy-nominated for Album of the Year and winner for Best Country Album) and recently Best Rock Album for Sound & Fury. Simpson is represented by Paradigm and TMWRK Management.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese_filmography
it has to be better than X Men XII
“The Irishman” was pretty dreadful.
worse than fast and furious 25?
No. But not as good as Frozen 12.
I’ll take your word for it. ;)
I like “The Irishman” but that might be because I’m Irish.
I fell asleep twice trying to watch The Irisman. It would’ve been cheaper and easier to just slice up scenes from Casino and Goodfellas. The same mafia hits, the same backroom dealings, the same cars exploding.
Not to take away from some of his great work. But now I know why no major studio wanted to finance that film. A bunch of 80 year old men trying to act like they are still 40. When DeNiro tried to kick that man in the street I think he threw his hip out.
I read the book “killers of...” and thought it was pretty good, informative and built like a suspense novel. Can’t wait to see how h’wood ruins it through wokeness.
LOL! My wife and I also fell asleep, and never finished it. Always planned to, but haven't yet.
What’s really funny is that if you use the search function to look up just about any movie title or genre on Netflix, they will give you the Irishman as one of the results.
Doesn’t seem too woke. Nary a woman or a POC in any of the leading roles according to this article. Apple is just desperate for content and willing to pay big bucks for Scorcese and DiCaprio. They should’ve just bought Netflix when they had the chance years ago.
I read the book “killers of...” and thought it was pretty good, informative and built like a suspense novel. Can’t wait to see how h’wood ruins it through wokeness.
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I read the book too & it was an outstanding account of the oil boom in the Osage & formation of what would become the FBI.
Hope Hollywood doesn’t f it up
then watch Kill the Irishman... true story
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