Shooting begins this August on Martin Scorcese's film The Wolf of Wall Street, the fifth collaboration between Scorcese and Leonardo Dicaprio. With Jonah Hill and Kyle Chandler already attached, the impressive cast list just got even better.
"The Hollywood Reporter" states that Academy Award Jean Dujardin will throw his considerable acting talent into the mix. Dujardin will play a money laundering Swiss banker named Jean-Jaques Hindali while DiCaprio will play the lead role of Jordan Belfort.
For those of you not familiar with the book here is a synopsis:
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.
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…
Sounds pretty sweet to me and this material is right up Scorcese's alley. With "Sopranos" and "Boardwalk Empire" screenwriter Terrance Winter on board I expect this film to be all kinds of awesome.
The Wolf of Wall Street is set to release some time in 2013
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