Rumors, hearsay, and scuttlebutt

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wegotthiscovered.com/movies/martin-scorseses-killers-of-the-flower-moon-could-be-pushed-to-2023/

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www.worldofreel.com/blog/2022/4/w0ssi2evsv0rtwecaqqfjtwmecpyy9

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variety.com/2022/awards/awards/michelle-yeoh-nicolas-cage-the-northman-leonardo-dicaprio-the-killers-of-the-flower-moon-oscars-1235239141/

While Apple hasn’t had any obvious contenders so far this year, the good news is that Martin Scorsese is head down on the anticipated “The Killers of the Flower Moon” with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jesse Plemons. Notorious for a lengthy post-production process, Scorsese hasn’t released anything except a single still image, so no one knows anything else about it. Variety has exclusively confirmed that despite early rumblings that DiCaprio had switched to a supporting role, he is in fact one of the leads, and will campaign in the lead actor category during the awards season. His co-star Plemons, fresh off his “Power of the Dog” Oscar nom, will campaign for supporting actor. The non-fiction book by David Grann on which “Flowers” is based centers on Plemons’ FBI agent character, but it’s unknown which direction screenwriter Eric Roth and Scorsese will take.

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Apparently Ridley Scott has just finished filming on NAPOLEON and is already starting post-production. Ridley works FAST and could likely have it ready to release at the end of the year. He finished HOUSE OF GUCCI around this time lat year and had that in theaters for Thanksgiving.
If Scorsese really wants more time to work on KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON I could see AppleTV+ okay with pushing the film to 2023.

Both movies are designed to be big Oscar winners, both would be aiming for a November/December release and both have budgets around $200 million. I don't think AppleTV+ would want to have their two biggest movies directly competing against each other theatrically or at the Oscars.