Jesse Plemons has joined Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro in
Killers of the Flower Moon, the big-budget thriller Martin Scorsese is directing for Apple.
The casting is a major coup for Plemons, who for years has anchored productions or stole scenes with his performances in supporting roles. And it coincides with him being wanted for lead roles not just by Scorsese, with whom he worked on 2019’s
The Irishman, but also by Jordan Peele, who had offered him a major role in his latest thriller.
The hope was for Plemons to do both, but scheduling ultimately could not be worked out. Peele’s movie is to shoot early summer while