Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence to guide Martin Scorseses What Happens at Night

Martin Scorsese has set his subsequent venture, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence starring in What Happens at Night, an adaptation of Peter Cameron’s ghost story novel.

The movie, scripted by Patrick Marber (Closer), follows an American couple who journey to a snowbound European city to undertake a baby. They take up residence in an enormous however fading resort the place they encounter a string of eccentric and unsettling figures, together with a chanteuse, a religion healer, and a corrupt businessman. As their keep deepens, actuality begins to blur and their relationship unravels.

Apple Original Films is in talks to finance and produce the venture alongside Studiocanal, which developed the screenplay. Production is predicted to start in early 2026.

The movie marks the primary collaboration between Lawrence and Scorsese as director. The filmmaker is a producer on Lawrence’s upcoming Die, My Love, which premiered at Cannes earlier this yr. DiCaprio, a longtime Scorsese collaborator, final labored with the director on Killers of the Flower Moon.

Both leads are in a busy awards-season stretch. DiCaprio stars in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, opening subsequent week to robust early evaluations. Lawrence will subsequent be seen in Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love, reverse Robert Pattinson.

For Scorsese, What Happens at Night extends his ongoing relationship with Apple. The studio not solely backed Killers of the Flower Moon but in addition maintains first-look offers with each Scorsese’s Sikelia and DiCaprio’s Appian Way.

The venture reunites Scorsese and DiCaprio with materials harking back to their earlier thriller Shutter Island. With three Oscar winners main the manufacturing, expectations are already excessive for the filmmaker’s newest enterprise.