Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence arrive in a snowy European town in the first image from Martin Scorsese‘s What Happens at Night.
Now in production in the Czech Republic, Scorsese is directing from a script by Patrick Marber (Closer, Notes on a Scandal), based on Peter Cameron‘s 2020 horror mystery novel.
Drawing comparisons to The Shining and “Twin Peaks,” What Happens at Night is a dream-like story of 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.
Patricia Clarkson (Shutter Island), Mads Mikkelsen (“Hannibal”), Jared Harris (“Chernobyl”), and Welker White (Goodfellas) round out the cast.
Apple Studios and Studiocanal are behind the project. Scorsese producing via his Sikelia Productions alongside Dicaprio, Lawrence, and Daniel Lupi (There Will Be Blood, Us).
What Happens at Night marks Scorsese and DiCaprio’s seventh feature collaboration, following Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Killers of the Flower Moon.
