Martin Scorsese to Direct Supernatural Horror Film WHAT HAPPENS AT NIGHT with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are teaming up once again, and this time they’re diving into supernatural horror. Scorsese is set to direct an adaptation of Peter Cameron’s eerie novel What Happens At Night, with Jennifer Lawrence joining DiCaprio as the co-lead.
This marks the seventh collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio, following their critically acclaimed 2023 epic Killers of the Flower Moon. The film also reunites DiCaprio and Lawrence, who last appeared together in Netflix’s record-breaking satire Don’t Look Up.
According to Deadline, filming is scheduled to kick off in January. Apple Original Films is currently in talks to finance and produce alongside Studiocanal, which secured the rights to Cameron’s book in 2023. Plot details and the rest of the cast are still being kept under wraps.
The source material lays the groundwork for something haunting and atmospheric. The description of the book reads:
“An unnamed American couple 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.
“On arrival, the couple checks into the cavernous and eerily deserted Borgarfjaroasysla Grand Imperial Hotel where the bar is always open and the lobby populated with an enigmatic cast of characters ranging from an ancient, flamboyant chanteuse to a debauched businessman to an enigmatic faith healer.
“Nothing is as it seems in this baffling, frozen world, and the more the couple struggles to claim their baby, the less they seem to know about their marriage, themselves, and life itself.”
That sounds like an interesting story, and with the level of talent involved, I’m sure that it will end up making for a great film.