Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence to Star in Martin Scorsese's Next Movie "What Happens at Night"

Oscar winner Martin Scorsese has set his next directorial job: a feature adaptation of the ghost story novel “What Happens at Night” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence.

Apple Original Films is in talks to finance and produce the movie with Studiocanal.

Studiocanal acquired the rights to Peter Cameron’s acclaimed novel in 2023, with Scorsese on board to produce and Patrick Marber, Oscar nominee for “Notes on a Scandal”, is adapting the screenplay. Adding Oscar winners DiCaprio and Lawrence only raises the project’s blue-chip pedigree.

Cameron’s story follows an American couple who travel 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,” a synopsis for the book reads. “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.”

While Scorsese and DiCaprio have enjoyed a legendary run as collaborators — making six feature films over two decades — “What Happens at Night” will mark Scorsese’s first time directing Lawrence.

However, the storied filmmaker produced Lawrence’s upcoming film “Die My Love”; the Lynne Ramsay-directed movie, for which Lawrence’s performance is garnering Oscar buzz, debuted at Cannes and will be released in theaters this fall.

DiCaprio, who is earning rave reviews of his own for Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” and Lawrence previously co-starred in the 2021 apocalyptic dramedy “Don’t Look Up” from Adam McKay.

Apple also has existing relationships with all parties. The studio was behind Scorsese and DiCaprio’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” and has first-look deals with their respective production banners, Sikelia and Appian Way. Apple also distributed Lawrence’s 2022 drama “Causeway.”