The Boys Are Back In Boom Town
When these two guys get together good things happen on the screen. Look at this:
- Gangs Of New York (7.5 IMDB)
- The Aviator (7.5)
- The Departed (8.5)
- Shutter Island (8.1)
- The Wolf Of Wall Street (8.2)
Those are some damn decent movies (with some really inflated scores) that have collected a lot of accolades including a Best Picture statue for The Departed.
Their next collaboration is an adaptation of the best-selling, non-fiction book Killers Of The Flower Moon, which is a serious novel by a serious author being produced by a studio — Imperative — that is only into to making serious movies.
The logline read:
A murder mystery, set in 1920s Oklahoma, where the Osage Indians were granted revenue rights to oil discovered under their lands that was harvested by oil companies. Suddenly, they begin to get murdered as did those trying to investigate. It came down to the newly created Bureau of Investigation, to overcome the corrupting influences from oil money and politics to solve the murder mystery, one that would bring the FBI to prominence.
Indians. Oilmen. The Feds. Add in very serious scribe Eric Roth (The Insider, Munich) doing the screenplay and this is heavy, man.
Goldplated heavy.
Did I mention that the book was optioned for $5 million before they have to pay Eric Roth a couple million to adapt it?
Get into writing, boys.
Preferably screenwriting as you only have to produce about 10% of the words of a novel. And like Eric Roth, you don’t even have to come up with any ideas.
The reward, the reward could be more than you can imagine. It will only take you ten years, writing three hours a day, to become pro. Or maybe like me, you’re just gifted.
