How Robbie Robertson Toned Down Martin Scorsese’s Harmonica Obsession During ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Editing (Video)

Jared Levine tells TheWrap that the late leader of The Band can be felt “all the way through” the film

Robbie Robertson’s manager of over 30 years Jared Levine remembered how much “Killers of the Flower Moon” director Martin Scorsese loved to cut to a harmonica when Robertson first presented sample scoring during early editing.

Scorsese’s latest film, adapted from the book of the same name by David Grann, stars Leonard DiCaprio as Ernest Burkhart, nephew of Robert DeNiro’s William Hale, who orchestrated the mysterious murders of Osage tribe members in the 1920s. Lily Gladstone stars as Mollie Burkhart. “Killers” was also the last film Robertson scored before he died.

“The interesting thing about Marty is that he likes to cut to music.

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