Martin Scorsese has finally found his next project. Well, he’s got about a million of them in the works, such as The Devil in the White City, a Hawaiian crime film with Dwayne Johnson, Home, a Frank Sinatra biopic, The Wager, and most recently 19th-century mafia movie The Vendetta. It’s actually none of those. Instead, Scorsese will direct What Happens at Night, a project he’s been attached to since 2023.
Deadline reports Scorsese has committed to What Happens at Night being his next film. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence will star, just as they were meant to for Scorsese’s Sinatra biopic and did previously in 2021’s Don’t Look Up. Patrick Marber wrote the screenplay, adapting Peter Cameron’s ghost story. Apple Original Films is nearing a deal to produce alongside Studiocanal. The latter bought the rights in 2023 with Scorsese then aboard as a producer.
The dream-like story follows a married American couple who travel to a small, snowy European town to adopt a baby. They check into a cavernous, largely deserted hotel where they encounter an enigmatic cast of characters including a flamboyant chanteuse, a depraved businessman and a charismatic faith healer. Nothing is quite as it seems in this strange, frozen world. As the couple struggle to claim their baby, the less they seem to know about themselves and the life they’ve built together.
This sounds like the same kind of hazy, haunting mystery that Scorsese and DiCaprio tackled with Shutter Island.
The plan is for shooting to begin in January, so now we know what’s coming up next for Scorsese, DiCaprio, and Lawrence, putting an end to a lot of questions.
