Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. I'm pretty stoked on the new Killers of the Flower Moon movie coming out. I mean, it's covering a lot of the stuff that Martin Scorsese loves to examine, right? Men's greed and violence and what that says about us. There's an interview in The New Yorker where he talked about reading the nonfiction book. It's based off by writer David Grant. And knowing that in order for this to work as a movie, he's going to

have to make some fundamental changes to the structure and the focus of the story. That idea,

that translation between media across different artists, is fascinating to me. And so in honor

of that, we're going to do a week of

interviews with authors on books that got turned into movies just to get a sense of what their

heads were like when making the original source material. And so obviously, we're going to kick it off

with this 2017 interview with David Grant. He told NPR Steve Inskeep that what he wanted to

accomplish with this book

is acknowledge the original sin that comes with the formation of our country. And you can really

see what drew a director like Scorsese to the story. Give it a listen. This message comes from

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wise.com. T's and Cs apply. Generations ago, the Osage Indian Nation was forced to move. Not for the

first time, white settlers pushed them off their land

in the 1800s. The writer David Grand sees in that move the start of an astonishing and tragic

story. When they were being driven off their land in Kansas, they didn't know where to go. And

an Osage chief stood up, and he said, we should go to this area that would

later become Northeast Oklahoma, because it's rocky and infertile, and the white man will

finally leave us alone. It turned out the Osage had chosen land that was rich in oil. In the early

20th century, members of this beaten-down Indian nation grew spectacularly wealthy.

They bought cars. They built mansions. They made so much oil money that the government began

appointing white guardians to help the Indians spend it. And then the Osage started to be killed.

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