EXCLUSIVE: Director Martin Scorsese has committed to his next film, and he’s got Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as his leads. They’re eyeing a January start for an adaptation of the ghost story novel What Happens at Night . Deadline hears that Apple Original Films is negotiating to finance and produce with Studiocanal, which has developed the script.

This comes as the DiCaprio-starring One Battle After Another is set to bow next weekend, amidst rapturous buzz and reviews for the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed film. Apple makes a lot of sense as the landing place for the new film. The studio was behind the Scorsese-directed DiCaprio-starrer Killers of the Flower Moon , and has first-look deals with Scorsese’s Sikelia and DiCaprio’s Appian Way banners.

Patrick Ma

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