

Filming took place in late 2012 in New York City and was shot mostly on film stock. The project was later greenlit by the independent production house Red Granite Pictures. secured the rights to Belfort's memoir in 2007, with Scorsese set to direct, but content restrictions stalled production. Leonardo DiCaprio, who was also a producer of the film, stars as Belfort, with Jonah Hill as his business partner and friend Donnie Azoff, Margot Robbie as his second wife, Naomi Lapaglia, and Kyle Chandler as FBI agent Patrick Denham.ĭiCaprio and Warner Bros.

It recounts Belfort's career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his firm, Stratton Oakmont, engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street, leading to his downfall. The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American epic biographical black comedy crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Terence Winter, based on Jordan Belfort's 2007 memoir of the same name.
