After crying wolf before, Martin Scorsese now plans to follow through and direct
The Wolf of Wall Street with Leonardo DiCaprio, with
Boardwalk Empire's Terry Winter having adapted the Jordan Belfort memoir. They will announce financing and a start date in Cannes. Scorsese plans to make the film after he finishes post on Hugo Cabret and then films his dream project,
Silence, an adaptation of the Shusaku Endo book that now has Bencio Del Toro attached.
Scorsese and DiCaprio were keen to do the project together several years ago, but it stalled in a tug of war between Warner Bros, which controlled the project, and Paramount, which had a rich deal with Scorsese that entitled the studio to share the film. When that dragged on, Scorsese and DiCaprio made what turned out to be a great decision: they instead did
Shutter Island. That turned out to be a big hit for each. Most
recently, Ridley Scott made plans to board the picture as director, because Scorsese didn't think he'd have time after committing to the 3D
Hugo Cabret, and mulling
The Irishman, a Steve Zaillian scripted adaptation of the mob memoir
I Heard You Paint Houses, with Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci starring. Scott instead committed to the science fiction film
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