Jesse Plemons joins Martin Scorcese's 'Killers of the Flower Moon' for Apple TV+

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By Oliver Haslam
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What you need to know

  • Jesse Plemons has signed on for a rile in Killers of the Flower Moon.
  • He joins Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro on the project.

Jesse Plemons has joined Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro on the payroll of Martin Scorcese's thriller Killers of the Flower Moon. The movie will come to Apple TV+ once complete.

According to a report by The Hollywood Reporter, Plemons will play an FBI agent in the movie based on the David Grann best-seller.

Plemons will play Tom White, the lead FBI agent investigating the murders. Lily Gladstone will play the role of Mollie Burkhart, an Osage married to Ernest Burkhart, who is the nephew of a powerful local rancher. DiCaprio is the nephew while De Niro is the strong-handed rancher.Scorsese is producing and directing Flower Moon for Apple Studios and Imperative Entertainment. Producing alongside Scorsese are Imperative's Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas, and DiCaprio's Appian Way Productions.

Apple TV+ continues to pick up some big names on big contracts in an attempt to flesh out its content catalog. The streaming service is now more than a year old and while it has had some successes its catalog is minuscule when compared with the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.

Apple TV+ is available for $4.99 per month but it's also part of the Apple One subscription bundle as well.

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Oliver Haslam
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Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too.

Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.