Another day, another movie for Ridley Scott to become attached to. The man really does like to line up a ridiculous amount of projects, and now it seems he’s got a new one, The Wolf Of Wall Street, which would reteam him with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Before they made Shutter Island together, Martin Scorsese and DiCaprio were supposed to make the The Wolf Of Wall Street, an adaptation of Jordan Belfort’s memoir about 1990s stockbroker decadence, but things feel apart at Warner, so the duo made the Dennis LeHane adapation instead. Nevertheless, Leo has stayed very keen on the project and has now set it up again at Paramount, but with Marty busy with The Invention Of Hugo Cabret, he’s happy to pass the baton on to someone else (although he’ll stay on as producer), with Ridley Scott now in early talks to sit in the director’s chair.
As yet no deal has been made, but Scott is said to love the script by Terry Winter, which Deadline describes as ‘funny, dramatic and fast paced, and manages to make something of a sympathetic character out of a stockbroker who supervises a cadre of brokers who squeezed clients to buy stocks that paid off – for the brokers, who used the funds to live extravagantly until they were brought down by the feds. However don’t expect the film imminently, as DiCaprio is supposed to star making a J. Edgar Hoover biopic with Clint Eastwood soon, and it isn’t clear whether Scott could fit in another movie before he makes his Alein prequel.