The Wolf of Wall Street reunites Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio
Finger-rubbing, knuckle biting high society is the scene set by Martin Scorsese for his newest film The Wolf of Wall Street. Leonardo DiCaprio returns as Scorsese’s leading man, Matthew McConaughey is appropriately silly yet serious, and Jonah Hill even shows up sporting some glasses and a new set of pearly whites.
Check out the first trailer for the book-turned-film after the jump.
While the trailer for The Wolf of Wall Street gives off a very Great Gatsby-via-modern-times scent (as many sites have pointed out), and somewhat cliche moments are apparent (“my name is…” voice over, some knuckle biting, government suit-wearers), the movie looks like a lot of fun. McConaughey alone should make for a very enjoyable watch.
The movie is based off of the book of the same name by author Jordan Belfort. Here’s a synopsis of his prose via Amazon:
By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited for him at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king and did his bidding, here, in his own inimitable words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called…
In the 1990s Jordan Belfort, former kingpin of the notorious investment firm Stratton Oakmont, became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of the canyons of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. Now, in this astounding and hilarious tell-all autobiography, Belfort narrates a story of greed, power, and excess no one could invent.
Reputedly the prototype for the film Boiler Room, Stratton Oakmont turned microcap investing into a wickedly lucrative game as Belfort’s hyped-up, coked-out brokers browbeat clients into stock buys that were guaranteed to earn obscene profits–for the house. But an insatiable appetite for debauchery, questionable tactics, and a fateful partnership with a breakout shoe designer named Steve Madden would land Belfort on both sides of the law and into a harrowing darkness all his own.From the stormy relationship Belfort shared with his model-wife as they ran a madcap household that included two young children, a full-time staff of twenty-two, a pair of bodyguards, and hidden cameras everywhere—even as the SEC and FBI zeroed in on them—to the unbridled hedonism of his office life, here is the extraordinary story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices at sixteen to making hundreds of millions. Until it all came crashing down…
The Wolf of Wall Street stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey, Jonah Hill, Jon Favreau, Jon Bernthal, Shea Whigham, Kyle Chandler, Ethan Suplee, and Spike Jonze. The film is set to hit theaters on November 15th.