Anyone wondering why Leonardo DiCaprio was sporting a mustache at the 2026 Oscars has their answer courtesy of the first look at Martin Scorsese‘s “What Happens at Night,” a haunted marriage drama that is likely to have the Oscar-winning filmmaker back in “Shutter Island” psychological horror mode. DiCaprio headlines the film in a reunion with his “Don’t Look Up” co-star Jennifer Lawrence.
DiCaprio and Scorsese jointly shared a first-look photo from “What Happens at Night” on social media. The image shows DiCaprio and Lawrence’s married couple walking hand in hand amid a chilling wintery landscape. Production on the film is now underway. The supporting cast includes Mads Mikkelsen, Patricia Clarkson and Jared Harris.
“What Happens at Night” is adapted from the novel of the same name by Peter Cameron. The story centers on a married American couple who travel to a European small town to adopt a baby. Per a book synopsis: “Nothing is as it seems in this baffling, frozen world, and the more the couple struggles to claim their baby, the less they seem to know about their marriage, themselves and life itself.”
While DiCaprio has a storied career being directed by Scorsese in movies such as “The Aviator,” “Gangs of New York,” “The World of Wall Street,” “Shutter Island” and more, this new movie will mark the first time Jennifer Lawrence is directed by the “Taxi Driver” and “Goodfellas” icon. During a conversation for Variety‘s “Actors on Actors,” Lawrence asked DiCaprio what she should know about Scorsese as a director.
“It’s a great thing, and he’s going to give you a lot of film references,” DiCaprio told her. “They usually come in the form of a DVD. And if you don’t have a DVD player, get one… he’ll have screenings sometimes for just one sequence in a movie. If there’s something that he wants you to capture from an old film or the pacing of something, you might have a screening of a whole film just for a specific scene that he wants to see. We might see some Japanese ghost films for reference, just to get the tone of it. You’re going to have an amazing time.”
“What Happens at Night” hails from Apple, which was also behind Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.” No release date has been set yet.
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