Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are going for lucky number seven.
The legendary director has set his next film as What Happens At Night, an adaptation of the mysterious allegorical novel by Peter Cameron, Entertainment Weekly has confirmed. DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence are attached to star, marking DiCaprio’s seventh go-round with Scorsese and Lawrence’s entree to the expansive repertoire of players the filmmaker has amassed over a six-decade career.
Apple Original Films is in negotiations to finance and produce the project alongside StudioCanal, the distinguished French production and distribution company behind classics like JFK; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; and the recent Past Lives. Deadline Hollywood first reported the news.
What Happens at Night is slated to be Scorsese’s 27th feature film, and his first since 2023’s Academy Award-nominated drama Killers of the Flower Moon. That film represented Scorsese’s first collaboration with Apple, after he experimented with Netflix on 2019’s The Irishman and teamed with Paramount on the four preceding features.
Killers of the Flower Moon was the sixth feature Scorsese and DiCaprio have collaborated on, with their first being 2002’s Gangs of New York.
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While Scorsese hasn’t directed Lawrence in a film yet, he did produce her upcoming film Die, My Love, which premiered at Cannes in May and is slated to hit theaters in November.
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Cameron’s What Happens at Night is a “ghost story” of a novel that follows “an unnamed American couple [that] travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a difficult journey that leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her illness will prevent the orphanage from releasing their child,” per Penguin Random House. The couple check into a “cavernous” hotel where they encounter a menagerie of oddities, from a “flamboyant chanteuse to a debauched businessman to an enigmatic faith healer.”
The author’s work has been adapted to film three before, with 1999’s The Weekend, 2009’s The City of Your Final Destination, and 2011’s Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You.
