Scorsese's "The Wolf Of Wall Street": Party Like A Rock Star, Live Like A King
According to reports, director Martin Scorsese is now attached to a big screen adaptation of author Jordan Belfort’s 1990 best seller "The Wolf Of Wall Street", from a script by "Boardwalk Empire" executive producer Terence Winter, starring actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
"Wolf" author Belfort, founded one of the first and largest 'chop shop' brokerage firms in 1987, then was banned from the securities business for life, before serving time for fraud and money-laundering. In his memoir, Belfort covers how he worked with managers of obscure companies to acquire large amounts of stock with minimal public disclosure, then pumped up the price and sold it, making profits while investors lost, laundering money through the purchase of legitimate businesses and cash deposits in Swiss banks.
The book also focuses on the vast amount of sex, drugs and risky physical behavior Belfort managed to survive.
Before he gets to "Wolf", Scorsese's next film project will be "Silence", based on the novel by author Shusaku Endo.
Premise of "Silence" follows two Jesuit priests who move to Japan and are met with violence and abuse. Based on a script by Jay Cocks, that film will star Daniel Day-Lewis ("Gangs of New York"), Benicio Del Toro ("The Wolfman") and Gael Garcia Bernal.
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According to reports, director Martin Scorsese is now attached to a big screen adaptation of author Jordan Belfort’s 1990 best seller "The Wolf Of Wall Street", from a script by "Boardwalk Empire" executive producer Terence Winter, starring actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
"Wolf" author Belfort, founded one of the first and largest 'chop shop' brokerage firms in 1987, then was banned from the securities business for life, before serving time for fraud and money-laundering. In his memoir, Belfort covers how he worked with managers of obscure companies to acquire large amounts of stock with minimal public disclosure, then pumped up the price and sold it, making profits while investors lost, laundering money through the purchase of legitimate businesses and cash deposits in Swiss banks.
The book also focuses on the vast amount of sex, drugs and risky physical behavior Belfort managed to survive.
Before he gets to "Wolf", Scorsese's next film project will be "Silence", based on the novel by author Shusaku Endo.
Premise of "Silence" follows two Jesuit priests who move to Japan and are met with violence and abuse. Based on a script by Jay Cocks, that film will star Daniel Day-Lewis ("Gangs of New York"), Benicio Del Toro ("The Wolfman") and Gael Garcia Bernal.
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