Martin Scorsese and Leonard DiCaprio are back together again. Variety just announced that the master and his muse are working together on a movie adaptation of an as of yet unpublished autobiography called The Wolf of Wall Street.
The book is by a guy named Jordan Belfort, and it’s due out in September. In it, Belfort tells the story of his life as a Long Island penny stockbroker who ends up going to prison for refusing to cooperate in a corruption and fraud investigation that swept through Wall Street in the 90s. After 20 months as some guy’s pasty white girlfriend, he got out. Presumably, DiCaprio will play the soon to be prison bitch Belfort. As in Catch Me If You Can, there’s also a second major role, that of an FBI agent who tries to bring Belfort over to his side.
What no one knows yet is where this sits on Scorsese’s incredibly packed movie making schedule. Since The Departed he’s been lining up new projects left and right. Warner Bros. won the project in a vicious bidding war, and Terence Winter has been hired to write the script, but Marty already has a Teddy Roosevelt movie he’s working on and a movie about Jesuit priests… at the least. Whether Wolf comes before those other projects or after them is anyone’s guess.
This will make five movies together now for Scorsese and DiCaprio. They did Gangs of New York, The Aviator, and The Departed together. Leo is supposed to be in that aforementioned Teddy Roosevelt movie and The Wolf of Wall Street makes five. That also makes Leonard DiCaprio officially the new De Niro. The guy can act his ass off so why not? I can’t think of a more consistently brilliant Hollywood actor and putting Scorsese and DiCaprio together has up till now meant certain magic every time. Adopt him already Marty. What kid wouldn’t want a short, hyper-active, hairy dad?
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