Los Angeles: Hollywood legend Martin Scorsese is reuniting with longtime collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio for What Happens at Night, a feature film adaptation of Peter Cameron’s acclaimed novel.
Apple Original Films is in talks to finance and produce the project alongside Studiocanal, which secured the book’s rights in 2023. The screenplay will be penned by Patrick Marber, the Oscar-nominated writer of Notes on a Scandal.
The film marks another big-screen pairing of DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, who previously worked together in Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up.
Set in a snow-covered European city, the story follows an American couple traveling abroad to adopt a child. At a vast, nearly deserted hotel, they encounter an unsettling cast of characters—a flamboyant singer, a corrupt businessman, and a charismatic faith healer. As the couple’s desperation grows, reality begins to blur, unraveling both their sense of identity and the life they thought they knew.
Scorsese and DiCaprio have a storied partnership with classics such as Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street, and most recently Killers of the Flower Moon, also produced by Apple. The duo is additionally developing The Devil in the White City, an adaptation of Erik Larson’s bestselling nonfiction work.
DiCaprio next appears in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, while Lawrence will star in Die, My Love opposite Robert Pattinson, directed by Lynne Ramsay and produced by Scorsese.
