5/04/2012
Jonah Hill joins Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese's 'The Wolf of Wall Street'
Want a know a quick way to instant acting credibility? Star in a Martin Scorsese flick that has Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead. Jonah Hill may have earned himself an Oscar nomination for Moneyball, but the biggest moment of his career may on the way as Deadline reports he's joined their long gestating adaptation, The Wolf of Wall Street.
This is a huge move for Hill, who has been doing a bang-up job adding to his dramatic cred while also having time for mainstream comedies like 21 Jump Street and The Watch. Based on the memoir by Jordan Belfort, the film will follow his meteoric rise and crashing fall as a drug addicted, hard partying stock broker in the 1980s and 90s, working at the corrupt firm that would end up as the basis for the film, Boiler Room. DiCaprio will play Belfort, with Hill as his best friend who quits his job in the furniture business to take up stock trading. Terence Winter(The Sopranos) will adapt the screenplay. It doesn't get much better this in in terms of an intriguing story brought together by creative geniuses at the top of their game.
Production on The Wolf of Wall Street begins this August.