Legendary director Martin Scorsese is set to direct a film adaptation of Peter Cameron’s novel What Happens at Night, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, Variety reported.
Apple Original Films is in talks to co-produce the movie with Studiocanal, which acquired the rights in 2023. Patrick Marber is adapting the screenplay.
The story follows an American couple who travel to a snowy European city to adopt a baby. The wife, battling cancer, becomes weak, while her husband fears her illness may jeopardize the adoption. They stay at the eerie Borgarfjaroasysla Grand Imperial Hotel, where enigmatic characters challenge the couple’s understanding of their marriage, themselves, and life.
Scorsese and DiCaprio have collaborated on six films over two decades, but this will be Scorsese’s first time directing Lawrence, whose performance in Die My Love—produced by Scorsese—is generating Oscar buzz.
Meanwhile, DiCaprio is receiving acclaim for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, opening the Galas section of the 9th Pingyao International Film Festival from September 24-30. Regina Hall co-stars in the thriller, loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland.
DiCaprio and Lawrence previously starred together in the 2021 film Don’t Look Up.
Source: NDTV