Martin Scorsese reteams with Leonardo DiCaprio on ghost story
Martin Scorsese's next film will be What Happens at Night, a ghost story starring Jennifer Lawrence and frequent collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio.
Martin Scorsese is reteaming with Leonardo DiCaprio on another movie.
The 82-year-old director and the One Battle After Another actor are making their seventh feature film together, an adaptation of ghost story What Happens at Night, which will also star Jennifer Lawrence.
Apple Original Films - which has first-look deals with Scorsese's Sikelia and DiCaprio's Appian Way - are negotiating to finance and produce with Studiocanal, who have developed the script.
Patrick Marber has written a script based on Peter Cameron's novel, with Scorsese originally only planning to produce while he explored his potential next directing project after his and DiCaprio's sixth feature film, Killers of the Flower Moon.
DiCaprio and Lawrence will play a married American couple, who travel to a small snowy town in Europe to adopt a baby. Their hotel is largely deserted but they encounter a string of characters including a faith healer, a depraved businessman and a flamboyant chanteuse, but nothing is quite as it seems. As the pair struggle to claim their baby, the less they seem to know about themselves and their lives together.
DiCaprio recently explained his work with top directors such as Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson has come about by him telling the filmmakers he is "ready and game".
Asked about landing his jobs, he told The Hollywood Reporter, he said: "Luck. Luck, and I guess the perseverance of just letting them know that you want to work with them, some day, when the time is right.
"That’s what I’ve been doing; that’s how I met Marty [Scorsese] when I was young, I just let him know that if he’s ready, I’m ready.
"I really love film as an art form; I love watching old movies, I’m a cinephile, and it’s like those rare films rise to the top.
"There are certain filmmakers that have a multitude of those films — Paul is one of them, Quentin [Tarantino] is one of them, Marty’s one of them.
"So I just let them know I’m ready and I’m game if they are.”
DiCaprio has admitted he's winding down on the number of projects he takes on, but he couldn't "say no" to making One Battle After Another with Anderson.
He told PEOPLE: "I’m slowing down a bit ... When these opportunities come up, I mean, I can’t say no ...
"I think anytime would’ve been the right time [to work with Anderson], to be honest. Ever since I met Paul early on and I saw Boogie Nights, I’ve been an obsessive fan of his work, watched all his movies.
"His films ruminate in my mind and they're conversation pieces with my friends, they last ... Awards can come and go, accolades, box office can come and go, but those pieces of art, that you still talk about and still think about and still question.
"Those are the films that we strive for as an actor. And Paul is the dude of our generation that does them."
