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'Killers of the Flower Moon,' Martin Scorsese’s high-priced period thriller that has the filmmaker’s frequent collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star, has found a deep-pocketed partner.

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00:00It looks like Apple is teaming up with Paramount for Martin Scorsese's high-priced period thriller

00:04Killers of the Flower Moon.

00:06The period crime drama, which has Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro attached to Star,

00:11also comes with a hefty price.

00:13With Apple and final talks with Paramount to partner and produce,

00:15the project carries a price tag of more than $150 million.

00:20This comes after months of the project's backers looking for a way to mitigate the cost of the

00:23feature, which kept escalating.

00:25Based on David Grant's book of the same name, Killers of the Flower Moon follows a

00:29chilling FBI investigation in 1920s Oklahoma when the Osage Nation discovered oil under their land

00:35and the Native Americans found themselves being murdered one by one.

00:38Now, high cost for the project has been nothing new.

00:41Imperative Entertainment picked up the movie rights to the book in 2016 for $5 million.

00:46But when Scorsese and DiCaprio stepped in in 2018, the cost was inevitably going to be higher,

00:51which somewhat makes sense.

00:53DiCaprio would likely earn around a $20 million payday for the project,

00:56and Scorsese also earns in that range.

00:59And according to sources, De Niro would receive a payday in the $15 million range.

01:03Now, the involvement of these three alone puts the above-the-line budget at $55 million.

01:09When Paramount picked up the project in June of 2019, sources say the studio was intent on making

01:14it with a price tag in the $150 million range.

01:17But then the budget ballooned to $225 million.

01:20According to sources, Netflix was prepared to take it on for $215 million,

01:25with MGM also considering the project.

01:27But in the end, Apple finally jumped in.

01:29The final numbers on the deal were not yet revealed.

01:32However, it's said that Apple will take the point as the creative studio

01:35and shoulder the cost for the project, while Paramount will distribute.

01:38For more details on this story, head to the article on THR.com.

01:42For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.

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