After the success with Gangs of New York, The Aviator and The Departed it makes perfect sense for Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio to work together again and it appears it just might happen as Scorsese is looking to direct Leo in the film adaptation Jordan Belfort’s upcoming tell-all autobiography “The Wolf of Wall Street” for Warner Bros. Pictures. The adaptation is being penned by “The Sopranos” writer Terence Winter.
It is not a done deal for Scorsese yet as Warners only secured the rights to “Wolf” Friday night, winning over Paramount Pictures and Brad Pitt’s production house Plan B. However, the move to go with Warner and DiCaprio’s Appian Way was due to the proposed attachement of Scorsese and DiCaprio, despite no official deals are in place for Scorsese to direct or DiCaprio to star.
In Wolf of Wall Street DiCaprio would play Belfort, a Long Island penny stockbroker who served 20 months in prison for refusing to cooperate in a massive 1990s securities fraud case that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including mob infiltration.
Bantam Books publishes the autobiography in September with Winter expected to get underway on the screenplay immediately.
DiCaprio’s next pic will be the just announced film adaptation of Richard Yates’ 1961 tome “Revolutionary Road,” reuniting him with Kate Winslet.
