Leonardo DiCaprio immortalized Jordan Belfort in Martin Scorsese’s 2013 epic “The Wolf of Wall Road,” portraying the previous stockbroker and convict’s rise and fall with coke-addled depth.
However an upcoming Paramount+ docuseries, “The Real Wolf of Wall Street,” guarantees to unveil the true story of Belfort and his boiler room brokers at Stratton Oakmont, which is “even darker and extra debauched than beforehand identified.”
The three-part doc is presently in manufacturing from See It Now Studios (the division behind latest true-crime docs “Don’t Date Brandon” and “Thirst Entice”), and it’ll premiere later this 12 months.
“The Actual Wolf of Wall Road” options unique interviews with insiders who’ve by no means beforehand spoken out about Belfort, plus new footage and 15,000 beforehand unreleased authorities paperwork. It is going to present how Belfort turned the face of Nineties extra earlier than his fraudulent brokerage agency imploded and he was despatched to jail.
As the pinnacle of Stratton Oakmont, Belfort led a inventory market scheme that defrauded buyers with “pump and dump” penny inventory gross sales. Earlier than all of it got here crashing down, he was well-known for his excessive social gathering life-style, which concerned copious quantities of medication, girls and yachts. In 1999, after securities regulators had closed in on Stratton Oakmont, Befort pled responsible to securities fraud and cash laundering expenses. He served 22 months in federal jail and have become an FBI informant, giving testimony in opposition to a number of of his co-conspirators. In 2007, he revealed the memoir “The Wolf of Wall Road,” which Scorsese tailored into his Oscar-nominated movie of the identical identify.
“The Actual Wolf of Wall Road” is produced by Maxine Productions (a half of Sony Photos Tv’s nonfiction arm) and Bloomberg. Govt Producers are Mary Robertson, Anneka Jones and Jesse Candy for Maxine Productions; Jason Leopold for Bloomberg; Cassie Thornton, Amy Palmer and Michael Bloom. For See It Now Studios Susan Zirinsky and Terence Unsuitable are government producers, and Aysu Saliba and Cara Tortora are supervising producers. Candy additionally serves because the showrunner.
