Oscar winner Martin Scorsese set up the next director job: This is an adaptation of the ghost story novel “What Happes at Night,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence.
Apple Original Films speaks with Studiocanal to finance and produce films. Stidiocanal won the rights to Peter Cameron’s acclaimed novel in 2023. Scorsese adapted the script by Producer and Patrick Marver (Oscar nominee for “Notes of Scandal”). Adding Oscar winners DiCaprio and Lawrence will only result in the project’s Blue Chip pedigree.
Cameron’s story follows an American couple who travel to strange, snowy European cities to adopt a baby.
“It’s a difficult journey to leave a wife who desperately weakens a cancer-stricken wife, and her husband worries that her illness will prevent the orphanage from releasing her child,” the book outlines. “On arrival, the couple checks in at the Volghal Fujaro Asisra Grand Imperial Hotel, where the bar is constantly open and the lobby is abandoned like a cave, with a cast of enigmatic characters inhabited by an ancient ornate Chantes, so much so that they seem to know about marriage, itself, and life itself.”
Scorsese and Dicaprio enjoy the legendary run of “What Will Come in the Night” co-film, which has been making six feature films for 20 years, but will be directing Lawrence for the first time in Scorsese. However, the renowned filmmaker has produced Lawrence’s upcoming film, “Die My Love.” Director Lynn Ramsay’s film, whose performances of Lawrence have attracted Oscars, will make his Cannes debut and release in theaters this fall. Dicaprio, who has won his own rave reviews for Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle andally,” previously co-starred in Adam McKay’s 2021 apocalyptic dashi “Don’t Look Up.”
Apple also has existing relationships with all parties. The studio is behind Scorsese and DiCaprio’s “Killer of the Flower Moon,” with first appearance deals with their respective production banners, Sicily and Appian Way. Apple also distributed Lawrence’s 2022 drama “Causeway.”
Deadline was the first to report news of its first project.
