The Big Picture While Ridley Scott's historical epic Napoleon stormed its way into theaters in 2023, it was far from Scott's first take on a powerful figure's life story.
Belfort's restitution required that half of his income be paid to the roughly 1,500 clients he defrauded up to 2009, with a total of $110 million in restitution further mandated. In the hopes his story would become his saving grace, Belfort wrote an initial 130 pages during his prison sentence, but started from scratch after his release.
Production at Warner Bros. was butting heads with distribution at Paramount, and with pressure on Belfort to have his movie succeed, he worried this was the end for The Wolf of Wall Street. This was nothing new for Hollywood, however, or even Scorsese specifically. La Brava novelist Elmore Leonard had, at one time, become so frustrated with Scorsese and actor Dustin Hoffman during development of a La Brava adaptation that he parodied the situation in his novel Get Shorty.
Related 'The Wolf of Wall Street' Had Unbelievable Legal Issues During Its Production Fraud becomes more fact than fiction here. Another actor to lose out of a major role in The Wolf of Wall Street was, of course, Brad Pitt, who planned on starring as Belfort should he have won the bidding war against DiCaprio. Losing roles in Scorsese movies is nothing new for Pitt though, who produced Scorsese's Oscar-winning 2006 film The Departed.
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