Scorsese Directing Spooky Story ‘What Happens at Night’

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(Left) Leonardo DiCaprio attends the London Photocall For ‘One Battle After Another’ on September 15, 2025 in London, England. Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: 2025 Getty Images. (Right) ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ director Martin Scorsese.

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Martin Scorsese has chosen his next film to direct: ‘What Happens at Night’.
Regular collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio will star alongside Jennifer Lawrence.
It’s a surreal, horror-tinged tale adapted from a Peter Cameron novel.

Despite both weighing other prospects, director Martin Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio are sticking together for another movie. The pair are both aboard new surreal, horror-inflected tale ‘What Happens at Night’.

And joining their merry band of moviemakers this time per Deadline is another Oscar winner, in the shape of Jennifer Lawrence.

The new movie, which adapts Peter Cameron’s 2020 novel, was developed by StudioCanal, with Patrick Marber writing the screenplay.

And now Apple Original Films, which worked with Scorsese and DiCaprio on ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’, is in talks to fund and produce.

What’s the story of ‘What Happens at Night’?

Martin Scorsese in ‘The Studio,’ premiering March 26, 2025 on Apple TV+.

Cameron’s book 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…

Where else can we see Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence?

Jennifer Lawrence as Maddie in director Gene Stupnitsky’s ‘No Hard Feelings.’

DiCaprio has Paul Thomas Anderson’s much buzzed-about ‘One Battle After Another’ headed to cinemas this weekend, and while box office prospects haven’t been as great as Warner Bros. might like given the hefty $130 million price tag, it has enjoyed enthusiastic reviews and seems positioned for plenty of awards buzz.

He’s also attached to another Scorsese project, a Hawaii-set based-on-truth story of gangsters and territory that is also set to star Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt (though it appears that it’ll now be in development a little longer since the new Marty/Leo team-up is gathering speed.

As for Lawrence, she’ll next be seen in Lynne Ramsay’s ‘Die My Love’, co-starring Robert Pattinson and due in theaters in November.

When will ‘What Happens at Night’ be in theaters?

With the deal for Apple still not locked down, expect to wait a while to learn when this one will arrive. But even assuming the company comes aboard, chances are it’ll look to find one of its regular distribution partners such as Paramount and Warner Bros. to handle getting it into theaters.