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Just in case you were worried that Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio didn't have enough cinematic irons in the fire right now between long-gestating serial killer thriller The Devil In The White City, naval drama The Wager, POTUS biopic Roosevelt, and a Hawaiian crime drama starring Dwayne Johnson, the unstoppable director-star duo are already cooking another one. Per Deadline's reporting, Scorsese's next movie will be an adaptation of Peter Cameron's ghost story What Happens At Night, with his six-time muse Leo set to star in it opposite Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence.
According to Deadline, Apple Original Films are looking to team up with StudioCanal to finance and produce the movie, with the plan being for cameras to start rolling potentially as early as this coming January. Adapted for screen by Patrick Marber (Notes On A Scandal), What Happens At Night sounds like it'll see Scorsese and DiCaprio returning to the kind of noodle-twisting, liminal space exploring, psychologically fraught territory of 2010 thriller Shutter Island. Instead of detectives on an asylum island however, this particular yarn will see DiCaprio and Lawrence star as a married couple traveling to Europe to adopt a baby. The kicker is that when they stop at their hotel, the spouses are met with a cavalcade of oddballs — including, per the novel's synopsis, "a flamboyant chanteuse, a depraved businessman, and a charismatic faith healer" — who leave them questioning each other and their relationship. No word just yet on whether said hotel turns out to have been built on a Native American burial ground or if it's called The Overlook, though.
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Beyond that enigmatic sort-of-synopsis, little else is known about the speedily set up project — such as who will play the aforementioned chanteuse, businessman, or faith healer. But with DiCaprio currently earning rave reviews for his turn in Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, J-Law lighting up the festival circuit herself right now in Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love, and Martin Scorsese at the helm, we'll happily check into whatever haunted hotel is necessary — baby or no baby — to experience What Happens At Night. Let's just hope DiCaprio doesn't have to mess with his suspiciously Heat 2 suitable goatee for this one, eh?