After having formed a successful team with the movie “Gangs of New York”, “The Aviator”, “The Departed” and “Shutter Island”, the director Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will meet in August in New York on the set of biographical drama “The Wolf of Wall Street“, a project that has sparked interest in a year ago and about which they have expressed agreement in principle, but was not introduced in pre-production until Red Granite Pictures did not provide full funding.
To ease the waiting period, Leonardo DiCaprio portrayed Hoover former FBI leader in biographical drama “J. Edgar “directed by Clint Eastwood and returned to the jazz era eccentric millionaire Jay Gatsby skin of 3D romantic drama “The Great Gatsby” directed by Baz Luhrmann and Martin Scorsese powered 3D fantasy adventure “Hugo” to win 5 Oscar statuettes and brought back to life a component of the band “The Beatles” in the biographical documentary “George Harrison: Living in the Material World”, but as soon as the actor will end collaboration with Quentin Tarantino on the Western “Django Unchained”, will return under the command of his mentor in the hope that the challenging and complex role of a corrupt Wall Street broker will finally get the record deserved the golden statue which was nominated three times in career.
“The Wolf of Wall Street” is inspired by the homonymous memory card magnate and former convict Jordan Belfort, who earn thousands of dollars per minute during the day and spending huge amounts of money at night with the same stunning speed and get you , buying drugs and sexual favors, attending wild parties or traveling around the world. Nicknamed “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “King” by brokers other young revelers, the brilliant Jordan Belfort became a millionaire before the age of 26 years, engage in illegal business, sending him behind bars in a federal prison on charges of fraud and money laundering.
