LMGI COMPASS
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Winter 2024
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Scorsese adapted the screenplay for this long-awaited
movie with fellow Oscar winner Eric Roth from David Grann's
no. 1
New York Times bestselling nonfiction book, Killers of
the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders
and the Birth of the FBI.
Scorsese worked closely with the Osage Nation to
faithfully render details of the period and the portrayal of
tribal members. Meticulous aention was paid to tradition,
sets, costuming and of course, the seing: the oil fields,
towns and grasslands of Oklahoma over a century ago.
MIKE FANTASIA/LMGI GETS THE CALL…
It was June of 2019 and SLM Mike Fantasia (pronounced
'Fanta-See-uh') was standing on the set of what he
thought was going to be his last film:
Top Gun: Maverick.
Next to him, director Joseph Kosinski, producer/star Tom
Cruise and writer/producer Christopher McQuarrie were
talking about where they hoped to put a Technocrane in
the middle of a protected wooded area (
LMGI Compass,
Summer 2022).
Mike's phone was vibrating and he took a moment to
check the caller ID. The number that came up belonged to
producer Georgia Kacandes. The two had worked together
before and she'd spoken with him a month or two earlier
about working on her next film. With Martin Scorsese.
She'd been trying to reach him for days. He meant to call
back, but never had a moment to spare.
Had he told her he planned to retire aer
Maverick? That
he and his wife were planning to leave their home in Mar
Vista, CA, for the clean air and open skies of Montana? No
maer. He couldn't answer now anyway. He was busy.
