The Wolf of Wall Street

Kyle Chandler Joins Martin Scorsese’s THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: May 9th, 2012 at 5:53 pm

Director Martin Scorsese is putting together one hell of a cast for his next project, The Wolf of Wall Street.  Based on Jordan Belfort’s memoir, Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a hard partying, drug addicted stockbroker who was indicted in 1998 for security fraud and money laundering and served a 22-month federal prison stretch.  Oscar nominee Jonah Hill recently joined the cast as Beflort’s close friend and business partner, and now Deadline reports that Friday Night Lights star Kyle Chandler is signing on to play the FBI agent who built the case against Belfort and took him down.

Chandler has landed some fantastic roles after wrapping the final season of FNL (for which he won the Best Actor Emmy).  He’s currently filming Kathryn Bigelow’s drama about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, Zero Dark Thirty, he stars opposite Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe in Broken City, and he’ll be seen later this year in Ben Affleck’s very promising period drama Argo.  It’ll be interesting to see if Scorsese makes good on his promise to use 3D on all his post-Hugo projects, but either way he’s lining up a fantastic cast for The Wolf of Wall Street.  Hit the jump for a synopsis of the book.

Jonah Hill Joins Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: May 4th, 2012 at 1:00 pm

Proving that his dramatic turn in last year’s Moneyball (and subsequent Oscar nomination) wasn’t simply a one-off, Jonah Hill is looking to next work with legendary director Martin Scorsese.  Deadline reports that Hill will star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Scorsese’s adaptation of Jordan Belfort‘s memoir The Wolf of Wall Street.  DiCaprio stars as Belfort, a hard partying, drug addicted stockbroker who was indicted in 1998 for security fraud and money laundering and served a 22-month federal prison stretch.

Hill will play Belfort’s close friend who becomes Belfort’s business partner once he convinces Hill’s character to join him in the world of stocks. Hill is also set to star opposite James Franco in the drama True Story, and his addition to The Wolf of Wall Street only affirms the fact that he plans on continuing with more dramatic roles.  Nevertheless, he’s not leaving comedy completely behind.  He’s set to star in Seth Rogen’s directorial debut The Apocalypse and he’ll next be seen alongside Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn in the sci-fi comedy The Watch.  Production on The Wolf of Wall Street begins in August.  Hit the jump for a synopsis of the book.

Confirmed: Martin Scorsese to Direct Leonardo DiCaprio in THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: April 19th, 2012 at 10:57 am

Red Granite Pictures has confirmed last month’s report that Martin Scorsese will reteam with Leonardo DiCaprio for the adaptation of Jordan Belfort‘s memoir The Wolf of Wall Street.  DiCaprio will play Belfort, a hard partying, drug addicted stockbroker who was indicted in 1998 for security fraud and money laundering and served a 22-month federal prison stretch.  Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter penned the script.  Filming is slated to begin in New York in August.

Hit the jump for the press release.

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio Back on for THE WOLF OF WALL STREET ; Shooting Begins in August

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: March 15th, 2012 at 10:26 am

Martin Scorsese is back on to reunite with Leonardo DiCaprio for a fifth time, and will collaborate on the drama The Wolf of Wall Street.  A little over a year ago, we reported that the two were set to make the film and have it be Scorsese’s follow up to Hugo, but Scorsese dropped off the project in May.   Now Deadline reports that Scorsese is back on board, and shooting is set to begin in August in New York.  The story is based on “Jordan Belfort‘s memoir of his days as a hard partying, drug addicted stockbroker who was indicted in 1998 for security fraud and money laundering and served a 22-month federal prison stretch.”  Boardwalk Empire creator Terrence Winter wrote the script, and he’ll polish it up before the movie goes into production.

Hit the jump for more.

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Starring Leonardo DiCaprio Lands at Red Granite Pictures, Martin Scorsese No Longer Directing

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: May 11th, 2011 at 10:23 am

It’s been a very long road for the adaptation of Jordan Belfort’s 2008 memoir The Wolf of Wall Street. Originally, Leonardo DiCaprio was to produce and star in the film with Martin Scorsese directing. When production stalled, the two made Shutter Island instead. Then Ridley Scott came aboard the film as director last summer, only to be replaced by Scorsese again in February, when we learned that Warner Bros. had dropped the project and producers were now moving forward with independent financing. Now, The Playlist reports that indie Red Granite Pictures has picked up the rights to the project, with DiCaprio’s Appian Way still producing.

The report also states that Scorsese has moved on from the project. The director is expected to helm his long-in-gestation 17^th century Jesuit priest drama Silence after he finishes post production on Hugo Cabret. The script for Wolf of Wall Street was written by Sopranos writer (and Boardwalk Empire creator) Terrence Winter and tells the story of stockbroker excess in the 1990s. No word on when filming would begin, but with DiCaprio shooting The Great Gatsby later this year I wouldn’t expect any movement before sometime in 2012. Hit the jump to read a synopsis of Belfort’s memoir.

Martin Scorsese to Direct Leonardo DiCaprio in THE WOLF OF WALL STREET; Filming Could Start in June [UPDATED]

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: February 16th, 2011 at 3:34 pm

It looks like director Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will be re-teaming once more, this time on an indie film. The duo will tackle the adaptation of Jordan Belfort’s 2008 memoir The Wolf of Wall Street. Ridley Scott was previously set up to direct the film with DiCaprio for Warner Bros., but apparently DiCaprio’s manager was able to secure independent financing for the project and will now shoot the flick sans-studio.

Scorsese is currently busy finishing up his 3D family film Hugo Cabret, but Vulture reports that with financing secured, filming could commence on the 1990’s stockbroker success story as early as June. Terrence Winter, creator/executive producer of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire (for which Scorsese directed the pilot, and is also a producer), wrote the screenplay for Wall Street, so it looks to be a cracker-jack team lined up for the flick. Is it too early to buy tickets? Hit the jump for a synopsis of Belfort’s memoir. [Update: It appears the presumption that this would be Scorsese's next project was a bit premature, as he's actually planning on directing Silence as his next film. He's still attached to The Wolf of Wall Street, it just looks like it won't be his next project after Hugo Cabret. Read our story on Silence here.]

Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio May Re-Team for THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: July 7th, 2010 at 7:30 pm

Director Ridley Scott is looking to re-team with an actor, and it’s not Robin Hood/Body of Lies/American Gangster/A Good Year/Gladiator star Russell Crowe!  Leonardo DiCaprio has long been attached to an adaptation of Jordan Belfort’s 2008 memoir The Wolf of Wall Street, which was to be directed by Martin Scorsese.  When production stalled, the pair made Shutter Island instead.

Now Deadline reports that Ridley Scott is in early negotiations to step in to direct his non-Crowe Body of Lies thespian from a script by Terrence Winter (The Sopranos), which will retell Belfort’s story of stockbroker excess in the 1990s.  More after the jump:

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