Welker White Joins Martin Scorsese’s ‘What Happens at Night’

Welker White (Goodfellas, The Irishman) has been cast in Martin Scorsese‘s What Happens at Night, Deadline has learned.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence lead the cast, which also includes Patricia Clarkson (Shutter Island), Mads Mikkelsen (“Hannibal”) and Jared Harris (“Chernobyl”).

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.

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).