Martin Scorsese to Reteam with Leonardo DiCaprio for THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio sure do love working together. The two have formed a great collaborative relationship, and they've made some pretty awesome films together. It looks like the two talented individuals will be teaming up for a fifth time for the film adaptation of Jordan Belfort’s 1990 novel The Wolf of Wall Street

The project was previously set up at Warner Bros. with Ridley Scott directing. Apparently the project fell apart and it has left the studio. Scorsese swooped in and snatched it up, hired Boardwalk Empire executive producer Terence Winter to write the script, and cast Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role. The film will be produced as an indie film set to go into production this summer. Scorsese is currently finishing up his 3d film The Life of Hugo Cabret, and Wolf of Wall Street could start shooting as early as June.

The story follows a drug-, alcohol-, and sex-addicted brokerage firm operator’s rise and fall, from multi-millionaire twentysomething in the go-go eighties to federal-convict thirtysomething banned from the securities business for life in 1994.

I'm sure this will end up being yet another great film from the Scosese/DiCaprio dynamic duo. What do you all think?

Here's a full description of the story from the book:

By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited for him at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king and did his bidding, here, in his own inimitable words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called…

In the 1990s Jordan Belfort, former kingpin of the notorious investment firm Stratton Oakmont, became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of the canyons of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. Now, in this astounding and hilarious tell-all autobiography, Belfort narrates a story of greed, power, and excess no one could invent.

Reputedly the prototype for the film Boiler Room, Stratton Oakmont turned microcap investing into a wickedly lucrative game as Belfort’s hyped-up, coked-out brokers browbeat clients into stock buys that were guaranteed to earn obscene profits–for the house. But an insatiable appetite for debauchery, questionable tactics, and a fateful partnership with a breakout shoe designer named Steve Madden would land Belfort on both sides of the law and into a harrowing darkness all his own. 

From the stormy relationship Belfort shared with his model-wife as they ran a madcap household that included two young children, a full-time staff of twenty-two, a pair of bodyguards, and hidden cameras everywhere—even as the SEC and FBI zeroed in on them—to the unbridled hedonism of his office life, here is the extraordinary story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices at sixteen to making hundreds of millions. Until it all came crashing down…

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