Martin Scorsese has been flirting with The Wolf of Wall Street for years, with the project often seeming close to being his next movie, before he moves on to something else. However now it appears he’s finally going to make it, as Variety reports Scorsese is now locked in, with Leonardo DiCaprio starring and a plan to start shooting this summer.
Based on Jordan Belfort’s best-selling memoir The Wolf of Wall Street, DiCaprio will play Belfort, looking at his dramatic rise and fall on Wall Street, along with his hard-partying lifestyle and tumultuous personal life, which included drug and alcohol addiction. Terence Winter (The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire) wrote the screenplay.
Production on The Wolf of Wall Street is slated to begin in August in New York. It’ll be Scorsese and DiCaprio’s fifth movie together.