After the haunting Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese is teaming up once again with Leonardo DiCaprio for his next directorial which also stars Jennifer Lawrence in the lead. The upcoming film is set to be an adaptation of the ghost story novel What Happens at Night.
The novel revolves around a married couple who travel to a small European town to adopt a baby. As they check into a deserted hotel, they meet an eccentric set of characters including a flamboyant chanteuse, a depraved businessman and a charismatic faith healer. They struggle to get their baby and in that strange world, they question themselves and their lives that they have built together.
Apple Original Films is in negotiations to finance and back the film with Studiocanal which had acquired the rights to Peter Cameron's novel in 2023. Patrick Marber is adapting the book to screen. Apple was also behind his previous film Killers of the Flower Moon. Previously, it was announced that Scorsese was only backing the film. It has now been revealed that he will direct as well as produce the project.
DiCaprio and Scorsese have previously collaborated on six films - Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) and a short film - The Audition (2015). This is Lawrence's first onscreen collaboration with Scorsese.
DiCaprio is awaiting the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie One Battle After Another which hits theatres on September 26. Lawrence will be seen next in Die, My Love along with Robert Pattinson, which is directed by Lynne Ramsay.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Blunt, and Dwayne Johnson are also attached to star in an upcoming, untitled Hawaiian-set crime drama directed by Martin Scorsese based on an idea by Blunt and Johnson. According to reports, the film's story is a cross between Goodfellas and The Departed.
Meanwhile, Scorsese is playing Italian poet Dante Alighieri's mentor in Julian Schnabel's In the Hand of Dante. It also stars Oscar Isaac, Al Pacino, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Gerard Butler, Louis Cancelmi, Franco Nero and John Malkovich.
