Casting calls for two major movies being filmed in Oklahoma are underway.
“Stillwater” starring Matt Damon and Abigail Breslin just issued a final casting call for Thursday in Oklahoma City. The crime drama began filming last Spring and sightings of Matt Damon around the state caused a social media stir.
“Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert Di Niro began casting calls earlier this month in Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
MEDIA HISTORY FOR OSAGE NATION’S REIGN OF TERROR
“Killers of the Flower Moon” isn’t the first time the heart-wrenching account of Osage Indians being murdered in the early 20th century for their oil headright money has been told.
“The Tragedy of the Osage Hills” first appeared in cinemas as a newsreel. David Grann, author of “Killers of the Flower Moon” documented in his book the promotion of the newsreel.
The handbill read, “The true history of the most baffling series of murders in the annals of crime.”
Grann also mentioned in the book that the Osage Nation Reign of Terror was dramatized in 1932 when the FBI worked with the radio program “Lucky Strike Hour” to dramatize some of its cases. One of the first episodes was based on the Osage murders.
In 1959, Hollywood released a film titled “The FBI Story” starring James Stewart. It featured a segment of the Osage Nation tragedy.
The actual FBI agent who worked on the case, Tom White, teamed up with a writer in the late 1950s/ear- ly 1960s to write a book “but publishers found the account less than captivating,” Grann wrote. Eventually, a fictionalized version titled “The Years of Fear” was published.