EXCLUSIVE: Director Martin Scorsese has dedicated to his subsequent movie, and he’s obtained Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as his leads. They’re eyeing a January begin for an adaptation of the ghost story novel What Occurs at Evening. Deadline hears that Apple Authentic Movies is negotiating to finance and produce with Studiocanal, which has developed the script.
This comes because the DiCaprio-starring One Battle After One other is ready to bow subsequent weekend, amidst rapturous buzz and evaluations for the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed movie. Apple makes lots of sense because the touchdown place for the brand new movie. The studio was behind the Scorsese-directed DiCaprio-starrer Killers of the Flower Moon, and has first-look offers with Scorsese’s Sikelia and DiCaprio’s Appian Means banners.
Patrick Marber penned the script to What Occurs at Evening after Studiocanal acquired rights to the Peter Cameron novel within the spring of 2023. On the time, Scorsese was solely meant to provide the variation as he percolated different attainable follow-ups to Killers of the Flower Moon.
DiCaprio had additionally been weighing a number of tasks together with Damien Chazelle’s Evel Knievel biopic however in the end these tasks went away and the items fell into place the place the movie has three Oscar winners above the road right here, together with Lawrence.
The dream-like story follows a married American couple who journey to a small, snowy European city to undertake a child. They examine right into a cavernous, largely abandoned resort the place they encounter an enigmatic solid of characters together with a flamboyant chanteuse, a wicked businessman and a charismatic religion healer. Nothing is sort of because it appears on this unusual, frozen world. Because the couple battle to assert their child, the much less they appear to learn about themselves and the life they’ve constructed collectively. Scorsese and DiCaprio tackled this type of sleight-of-hand materials of their hit adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel Shutter Island.
Lawrence was most lately seen in Die, My Love reverse Robert Pattinson, with Lynne Ramsay directing. The movie premiered at Cannes, the place Mubi acquired it with plans for a November launch.
Keep tuned because the distribution deal will get wrapped up, and Scorsese casts up these different eccentric character roles.