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Over the last 24 hours a lot of news has been shared with us about the next Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio picture, people noticed our love for both of them, we appreciate that.  Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will make The Wolf of Wall Street, an indie film this time around, but won’t be Scorsese’s next film (after Hugo Cabret).  THR reports that will be Silence, Scorsese’s adaptation of the Shusaku Endo novel that the director has talked about for years.

The Wolf of Wall Street follows a script is by Boardwalk Empire producer Terence Winter based on the novel of the same name by Jordan Belfort.  This is all fine Mr. Scorsese, but what about the Frank Sintra biopic [here] and The Irishman [here] with De Niro?  Those are in my movie bucket list you know.  So we wait.

Book Synopsis:
Belfort, who founded one of the first and largest chop shop brokerage firms in 1987, was banned from the securities business for life by 1994, and later went to jail for fraud and money-laundering, delivers a memoir that reads like fiction. It covers his decade of success with straightforward accounts of 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, so he and the insiders made large profits while public investors usually lost. Profits were laundered through purchase of legitimate businesses and cash deposits in Swiss banks. There is only brief mention of Belfort’s life before Wall Street or events since 1997. The book’s main topic is the vast amount of sex, drugs and risky physical behavior Belfort managed to survive. As might be expected in the autobiography of a veteran con man with movie rights already sold, it’s hard to know how much to believe.