Who Does Daredevil’s Elden Henson Play In Killers Of The Flower Moon?

The same can’t be said for the other Burkhart brother depicted in «Killers of the Flower Moon» — Byron Burkhart, played by Scott Shepherd. He has a substantial role to play, with many scenes between him and Leonardo DiCaprio. But Elden Henson’s Duke Burkhart is hardly seen and remains silent. And considering the movie already runs for three hours and 26 minutes, it’s unlikely there will be a significantly longer director’s cut down the line.

It’s worth noting the film went through numerous changes throughout the development process. It’s based on the 2017 book of the same name by David Grann, but Martin Scorsese adapted it to give greater emphasis to the Osage people. Scorsese admitted to The New Yorker that earlier drafts required extensive revisions before getting it to the place it is today. He said of the screenplay originally, «Our script was over two hundred pages, and one night we had a big reading: myself and Leo and [the co-writer] Eric [Roth] and my daughter, a number of people. The first two hours, we were moving along. The second two hours, boy, is this getting a little long in the tooth, as they say. It was just getting to be — we really ran out of energy in the story.»

Perhaps there was a version of «Killers of the Flower Moon» where Duke Burkhart at least said a couple of things. But Elden Henson probably doesn’t feel too bad. Getting to appear in a Scorsese movie in any capacity is an achievement in and of itself.