EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal has acquired rights to develop Peter Cameron’s well-received 2020 novel What Happens At Night right into a characteristic movie, with Martin Scorsese aboard to provide and Oscar nominee Patrick Marber (Notes On A Scandal) adapting the screenplay.
What Happens At Night, a finalist for the LA Times‘ Book Prize for Fiction, is a dream-like story of a married American couple who journey to a small, snowy European city to undertake a child.
The couple test right into a cavernous, largely abandoned resort the place they encounter an enigmatic forged of characters together with a flamboyant chanteuse, a wicked businessman and a charismatic religion healer. Nothing is kind of because it appears on this unusual, frozen world. As the couple battle to assert their child, the much less they appear to find out about themselves and the life they’ve constructed collectively.
The Times Of London referred to as the novel “a mystery story, even a bit of a thriller, with some piggybacking on the ready-made sinister atmosphere of The Shining.” The Gothic plot provides off David Lynch and Patricia Highsmith vibes, and in Scorsese’s personal oeuvre has a pinch of Shutter Island about it.
The novel was recognized and introduced into Studiocanal by LA-based manufacturing government Aaron Ensweiler. Ensweiler and Chief Creative Officer of U.S. Operations, Shana Eddy, will oversee for Studiocanal, which is in early growth and can absolutely finance. No phrase but on a director.
Oscar winner Scorsese is quickly to debut his newest epic Killers Of The Flower Moon on the Cannes Film Festival. The legendary filmmaker is a prolific executive-producer however producer credit on motion pictures he doesn’t direct are extra uncommon: What Happens At Night can be amongst solely a handful within the final 20 years alongside upcoming Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro, starring Bradley Cooper.
Playwright, comic, writer and screenwriter Marber was Oscar nominated for his screenplay of Notes On A Scandal and in addition wrote the Mike Nichols movie, Closer. In post-production he has film The Critic, starring Gemma Arterton, Ian McKellen, Mark Strong and Lesley Manville.
Peter Cameron commented: “I could not be more honoured or delighted to have my novel optioned by Aaron Ensweiler and Shana Eddy at Studiocanal. And to have Martin Scorsese and Patrick Marber, two artists whose talents amaze me, re-imagining and recreating What Happens at Night is simply as good as it gets.”
Patrick Marber added: “I’m so thrilled and so excited to be working with the legendary Martin Scorsese to deliver Peter Cameron’s astonishing and exquisite story to the display screen.“
Aaron Ensweiler and Shana Eddy concluded: “Every now and then a project comes along that reminds you why you fell in love with cinema. This is one of those projects. Peter Cameron’s hauntingly beautiful novel captured our imaginations from the first page. The opportunity to shepherd its adaptation is an honour, and the chance to do so with Martin and Patrick is a privilege of the highest order.”
Peter Cameron is represented by CAA. Patrick Marber is represented by LBI Entertainment, Judy Daish Associates, David Matlof and CAA, and Martin Scorsese is represented by LBI Entertainment and WME.
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